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It's true that the state party has been run by centrists, but those same centrists have lost power to the Republicans.
This makes it important for centrists — whether they consider themselves left-wing progressives, radical centrists or liberal conservatives — to articulate a credible middle road.
Most secular Jews — 62 percent — identify as centrists.
You see, he's a centrist, and centrists can't win. 18.
To have any chance, Latin American centrists need new ideas.
But the group of centrists -- headed up by Florida Rep.
Liberals and centrists have taken to the streets in protest.
Centrists opposed to the new bill are largely echoing Rep.
The rise of extremist parties erodes moderation even among centrists.
Meadows predicted that there could be similar blowback for centrists.
Centrists and the far right share talking points on immigration.
But sometimes zombie ideas also manage to eat centrists' brains.
The centrists appear to have the highest odds of success.
The views of centrists may have been channeled by Gov.
So the Democrats always run as centrists, moderates, and then nothing.
Yet centrists are likely to do better than early polls suggest.
"I almost wonder why you're Democrats," she said to the centrists.
It will also put pressure on Republican centrists such as Sens.
They fear chasing away centrists, independents and white working-class voters.
And there are both conservatives and centrists who sound wobbly. Sen.
J., a leader of GOP centrists in the House Tuesday Group.
Centrists were fleeing that bill as it moved toward a vote.
The centrists make promises they've made for decades and never kept.
Flake and Corker were spotted chatting with Democratic centrists including Sens.
The Hill: GOP centrists threaten to use conservatives' weapon against them.
Centrists insist on a pathway to citizenship for the young immigrants.
As a way to mollify the centrists, an amendment from Reps.
"Exposure to import competition is bad for centrists," Mr. Hanson said.
One is supposed to capture a compromise between centrists and conservatives.
Everywhere you look lately, centrists are panicking about the emboldened left.
Centrists, or moderates, are really people who are willing to compromise.
The politics around abortion are complicated for centrists in both parties.
The Midwestern centrists are the only two plausible not-Biden candidates.
The negative impact is reverberating among centrists in the Democratic Party.
And the centrists have to speak to whatever they are doing.
Since the 1990s Estonia has largely been governed by sober centrists.
Fearful of losing their seats, centrists extracted these concessions from progressives.
The carousel of rising and falling centrists is pushing Sanders ahead.
If too many centrists run, they could box each other out.
Republicans may cry socialism, and affluent centrists may not love it.
So one of the ideas is getting, being in the centrists.
The hopes of France, Europe and centrists everywhere are resting on him.
But the early focus has been on Washington-friendly centrists: Ohio Gov.
It is true that some incumbents and centrists also did reasonably well.
The private sector and many centrists will urge both men to reconsider.
Prominent SPD centrists are advancing the case for talks with Mrs Merkel.
Some centrists, too, such as the German Green Party, seek radical change.
Even centrists and neoliberals may ask questions like: Will this erode prosperity?
Iranians cast their vote with moderates, centrists and even a few conservatives
But the idea fell flat on Tuesday after centrists such as Sens.
In addition, Ms Rousseff needs 70-odd centrists to avoid the threat.
Should the left work with centrists and even conservatives on policy goals?
The Sanders movement may well torment Democratic centrists for years to come.
Democrats can win by attracting centrists of all ages, ideologies and backgrounds.
Strategists say Warren 'Medicare for All' plan could appeal to centrists Sen.
To some centrists and liberals, Kristol's ideological crisis presents a political opportunity.
Ryan's comments are unlikely to dissuade the centrists pushing the discharge petition.
The centrists noted that the floor session would stretch until 10 p.m.
Those supporting Mr. Rouhani prefer to call themselves pragmatists, centrists and moderates.
To be blunt, Labour's centrists are sounding increasingly racist themselves. Culture. Identity.
Trump Republicans and Sanders Democrats will find common cause against establishment centrists.
Opinion The most effective third-party presidential candidates were polarizers, not centrists.
Democrats are in their own tug of war between progressives and centrists.
Some centrists facing tough reelection races are worried about being labeled obstructionists.
The Republicans of that time were full of centrists and even liberals.
"Some centrists think that the left is this monolithic bloc," Brostoff said.
Centrists and moderates tend to focus on what's really important to people.
But why can't the extremists be defined in terms of the centrists?
Sanders' position confused many Democratic health care experts and angered party centrists.
The question is whether that is enough to bring centrists on board.
Meanwhile, the centrists in the race have struggled to gain much traction.
David Leonhardt Susan Collins is often called one of the last centrists.
But if too many centrists run, they could box each other out.
Many conservatives, centrists, and liberals are not pleased with the executive order.
A wide array of 22016 contenders -- including centrists such as former Colorado Gov.
Delaney was one of several centrists on the stage who took on Sens.
And he's the runaway leader among Democrats who identify as moderates or centrists.
Three of them are centrists from states Trump won easily last year: Sens.
Centrists caution against it—and point to losing Berniecrats like Quist as evidence.
A big-tent approach is not just about appealing to centrists or conservatives.
Booker is seen in different lights by centrists and progressives in the party.
Italy's 5-Star has previously explored joining the pro-EU centrists in Brussels.
But last week was the centrists' most visible and audacious power play yet.
Once Biden won South Carolina, the centrists swung behind him with startling speed.
I don't mean centrists — look at Phil Bredesen in Tennessee, who got clobbered.
This was not the first time that centrists have collaborated with the AfD.
But GOP centrists are wary of any leadership deal with the Freedom Caucus.
The 12 Democrats who voted for the measure were largely centrists, including Reps.
There are other alliances too that group together European green parties or liberal centrists.
Doug Jones won in Alabama, there are centrists but it&aposs sadly the case.
HEGSETH: All those Doug Schoen centrists, come forth for the polls for Election Day.
The centrists probably still see it as too ambitious and vulnerable to political attack.
This doesn't apply only to the state of centrists parties like the Liberal Democrats.
In the process, however, the new bill might have lost just as many centrists.
This only made the centrists seem less distinct from the FPÖ, and less forthright.
In Austria, at least, the centrists have an example of what not to do.
Twenty Republicans opposed the measure, many of whom are centrists from swing-state districts.
The feud underlines a broader schism within the Democratic Party between centrists and progressives.
Polls that show the nation is generally divided on impeachment have also bolstered centrists.
When Republicans were in the ascendant, centrists urged Democrats to adapt by moving right.
Now, the Clintonian centrists are the whipping boys for the rising economic-populist wing.
Recent Democratic presidential nominees such as Clinton, Obama and John Kerry ran as centrists.
All this antigovernment propaganda, from the right and the Democratic centrists, weakens our republic.
Durbin said the Democratic leadership, however, is not actively whipping centrists to oppose Pompeo.
In seeking to cobble together 50 GOP votes, McConnell's office has focused on centrists.
House Democrats are warning of a down-ballot bloodbath and centrists are freaking out.
Some likely Iowa caucusgoers also consider themselves woke (28%), centrists (2701%) or capitalists (23.7%).
Bloomberg's campaign — like other centrists seeking the nomination — has stressed electability in purple states.
Honestly though, I don't expect any of those attacks from relative centrists to land.
Centrists welcomed Cohn as director of the National Economic Council as a moderating force.
Centrists were wrong about the urgency of reducing the deficit over the past decade.
And we're tired of wasting our votes on centrists who have given us nothing.
The history of feminism is filled with radicals and progressives and liberals and centrists.
Populism is something you do, not something you are, and even levelheaded centrists do it.
For its centrists, some of the blame belongs to the left-wingers and their grouching.
Rather, it is important to note that centrists are hard to find, almost by definition1.
Centrists in Britain are hoping voters might change their minds as economic reality sinks in.
So far, centrists have done a singularly unimpressive job of putting their philosophy back together.
Asked if any differences were resolved in the meeting, which included centrists such as Sen.
Both policies are losses for Senate centrists and could put their votes at risk. Sen.
Against feeble opposition from party centrists, Mr. Corbyn was elected leader by a wide margin.
Then there are the GOP centrists, many of whom already face tough reelections in 28500.
This debate is not about men against women, young against old or progressives against centrists.
Including it in the repeal bill could cause a problem for some centrists like Sen.
Biden's counterpoint, it appears, is aimed squarely at an unquantified number of ill-defined centrists.
But the move did not quiet attacks from centrists 2020 hopefuls like South Bend, Ind.
Centrists previously objected to adding repeal of the essential health benefits to the bill.  Rep.
The centrists must not take it for granted, for they owe it all their strength.
At a meeting at the White House last week with prominent centrists such as Sens.
Why is it that progressives are branded as ideologues, while centrists are seen as pragmatists?
Notably, more than 40 percent of the members of Heterodox Academy are liberals or centrists.
If the centrists are panicking, they think, then their candidate must be doing something right.
Catering to the Freedom Party is likely to be a losing strategy for the centrists.
Five-Star has already explored the possibility of joining the pro-EU centrists in Brussels.
Both appeal to centrists and block the other's path to advancing in the primary field.
Meanwhile, Biden, along with most foreign policy centrists in the Democratic Party, has also shifted.
The Democrats offer a choice between centrists with realistic goals and progressives with realistic goals.
For the first time, Biden did come ahead of the other centrists in the race.
Senate centrists A group of about 22019 senators broke the logjam with talks on Sunday.
But including the provision could make it harder to get centrists to back the bill.
Dissatisfied centrists are well represented in the American elite, but not across the American electorate.
But centrists worry that will effectively happen if insurance companies can charge sicker individuals more.
Senate Democrats, particularly centrists in Trump-carried states, have little appetite for another shutdown showdown.
Tea Party candidates have challenged moderates and centrists, leaving the GOP caucus divided and chaotic.
It amounts to a kind of enforced naivety that centrists too often mistake for virtue.
For many European centrists, this confirmed that populists can be defanged by bringing them into government.
The compromise bill was written after weeks of negotiations between conservatives, centrists and House GOP leadership.
Thirteen of the 27 state governors-elect, including centrists, have declared support for him (see Bello).
Yet Republicans like Mr. Stevens continue to portray centrists like President Obama as the loony left.
Centrists and other conservatives outside the Freedom Caucus are also threatening to vote against the bill.
It's also important to note here where Corbyn's manifesto differs from what centrists might have offered.
Centrists on both sides of the Atlantic don't seem to understand how deep this current runs.
McConnell is also under pressure from GOP centrists, creating a difficult balancing act for the leader.
There's no credible leader to bridge the gap between the progressives and the left-leaning centrists.
Click here to see where Republican centrists and conservatives stand on the new legislation: http://bit.
But centrists warn that attacking Trump isn't likely to be a recipe for victory in 2628.
One cannot condemn centrism and yet demand that centrists support the left turn in Democratic politics.
GOP centrists ultimately won that battle, in that the skinny repeal bill included no Medicaid cuts.
Elizabeth Warren dunking on centrists, Wednesday's offering was a bit more of a free-for-all.
But today's Democratic Party is not the party that nominated Southern centrists or New England elites.
" There are likely to be few centrists on the love-hate scale for "The Greasy Strangler.
Collins and other centrists also threatened to oppose a motion to even begin debating the bill.
Progressives cannot rely upon themselves alone; moderates, or centrists, still control the reins of the party.
Claims that aggressive climate change policies are "unrealistic" are, almost always, made by centrists and conservatives.
Still, how does such misconduct compare to the calamities engineered by the "centrists" who preceded him?
The 33-year-old House lawmaker is performing well with centrists, the group's internal numbers showed.
And the gullibility both of the news media and self-proclaimed centrists remains a remarkable story.
Jeremiah Denton Jr. to the Senate from Alabama finally swept away Republican centrists like Mr. Buchanan.
Can he break even on the centrists he loses versus those he pulls from Trump's base?
Sweden's centrists prevail, the C.I.A. broadens its drone operations, and Novak Djokovic wins the U.S. Open.
And U.S. political life won't begin to recover until centrists face up to that uncomfortable reality.
It would be perilous for Europe's centrists to assume that these movements will retreat anytime soon.
Both were political centrists at heart but were pushed to the extremes by their party's bases.
Now that other centrists have dropped out, the best option to unite the parties is Bloomberg.
But the centrists Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg got in on the act, too.
And some centrists said the hard-liners just wanted to deflect blame for tanking the bill.
Billionaire Tom Steyer's health care plan plants him among the centrists in the 2020 Democratic primary.
The bill passed both houses of Congress primarily with support from a long slumbering group: Centrists.
The centrists were those who were genuinely cross-pressured between the programs of two major parties.
But the event was nonetheless a potent reminder of just how far the centrists have fallen.
Speaking with supporters on her Instagram live feed, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out that the group of anti-Pelosi insurgents are mostly centrists who worry that handing power back to the San Francisco liberal would harm newly elected centrists who helped deliver Democrats the House majority this month.
She is one of a handful of GOP centrists and decided she's needed in the U.S. Senate.
As well as weakening Hollande, a Macron bid could hurt Juppe's chances, as both would target centrists.
The run-up to the conference has seen Corbynite candidates trouncing centrists in elections to committee chairmanships.
Centrists must prove that they are better equipped than extremists to repair the damage politicians have done.
As they had with the conservatives, House leaders picked off a few other centrists with individual promises.
If more centrists or reformists win in either election, we could see continued progress in that relationship.
Her opposition could signal movement against the bill, titled the American Health Care Act, among GOP centrists.
Earlier this week, there were enough wary conservatives and centrists to put the whip count in question.
Les Republicains is internally split and struggling to position itself between Macron's centrists and the far-right.
Clinton, and the scorched-earth campaign to come, could depress turnout among the state's centrists and progressives.
A number of GOP centrists lost reelection bids in 2018, but those who remain are demanding changes.
The House also postponed a vote on a compromise immigration bill backed by GOP centrists to Friday.
But the talks between leaders, centrists and conservatives seeking such an agreement have failed to bear fruit.
No Democrat has come out to support the bill, though Cotton thinks centrists could be pulled over.
The centrists would start by letting those just under the 65 age-of-eligibility buy into Medicare.
Also, I can't help but notice a curious pattern in the recommendations of some self-proclaimed centrists.
And self-proclaimed centrists will still find a way to claim that the sides are equally bad.
The Democratic divisions pit young lawmakers against old, liberals against centrists and white Jews against black Muslims.
Centrists like Schultz and Bloomberg often see a third party as a way to unite moderate Americans.
The Republican compromise came with centrists just two signatures short of the 218 needed to compel votes.
Liberal Democrats came out strongly in favor of the plan, but centrists refrained from taking a stance.
It tends to come from centrists who are confusing their own policy wishes with smart political advice.
The centrists consolidated around Joe Biden, including Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, who quickly exited the race.
There is no evidence that there are enough centrists or "pragmatists" to threaten the two-party duopoly.
They were Democratic centrists, though they dealt with different issues obviously because they were presidents decades apart.
But it could at least make him a more palatable figure to centrists and independent-minded voters.
Centrists claim that liberals' obsession with political correctness and minority rights drove white voters to Donald Trump.
Centrists, helped too by the rise of Ciudadanos in Spain, should replace the ECR as third party.
In the meantime, the centrists' gamble failed: The populist right coasted into office in Italy last June.
Two things matter when removing a standing president from office: activate the base and appeal to centrists.
Whatever way the bloc of centrists swings will determine the final shape of the Senate immigration bill.
Undercutting the centrists, Trump on Wednesday threw his weight behind a rival immigration measure spearheaded by Sen.
But for centrists, the fight over immigration isn't worth shutting down the government, or even risking it.
For their caution, centrists both lost their seats and gave Americans fewer and worse health care choices.
The mix includes both centrists like Rubio, King and Curbelo as well as conservative lawmakers like Rep.
Indeed, a widening rift between accomplished centrists and impatient young progressives augurs a uniquely destructive general election.
Indeed, a widening rift between accomplished centrists and impatient young progressives augurs a uniquely destructive general election.
Opinion Columnist There's something odd about the self-described moderates and centrists considering a run for president.
In general, centrists are furiously opposed to any proposal that would ease the lives of ordinary Americans.
Though the issue split the ruling conservatives, her steely persuasion rallied centrists and left-wingers behind the bill.
Few paid much heed; the country has a minor history of liberals and centrists who come to naught.
They point out that most Americans are either far-left, center-left, centrists, center-right, or far right.
Yet his supporters — mostly trade unions and new, ordinary party members — say centrists have misread the public mood.
We are honest leaders who, each of us, governed as centrists without scandal in two terms in office.
The French centre-right is partly hostage to broader Europe-wide voting shifts towards nationalists, centrists and greens.
The few moderates, such as then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, championed primary reform as a way to empower centrists.
It found devout Jews largely lean to the right politically, while secular Jews mainly see themselves as centrists.
As time is tight, ALDE, a grouping of liberal centrists, though small, could possibly serve as a base.
Today's centrists need to do likewise, and focus on thinking up new ideas rather than inventing new parties.
Conservatives are set on their wish list and Republicans centrists have made clear those requests go too far.
Conservatives and centrists have attempted to bring around skeptical liberals by tying the tax receipts to infrastructure funding.
But meeting those demands could alienate centrists wary of scaling back the Medicaid expansion in the first place.
Eyzaguirre and Rodriguez, both centrists, served under Ricardo Lagos, a moderate who was president from 2000 to 2006.
Some of these centrists represent congressional districts with large Hispanic populations that want Dreamer protections cemented into law.
They're also not easy to pin down ideologically, and have angered their fair share of progressives and centrists.
Most political observers see him as a credible general election candidate who can win over centrists and independents.
There was a time when arguments between centrists and progressives were framed as debates between realism and idealism.
The parties in the other camp aren't cause-based, but rather elite confabulations designed to house sensible centrists.
Pelosi's core critics, by contrast, are mostly centrists like Spanberger, a former CIA officer who toppled conservative Rep.
European centrists have yet to refine their winning issue, although it is increasingly present: populism is hurting economies.
There may be reason to think populism is struggling globally, and European centrists could deliver the next blow.
Many centrists said privately that ­­MacArthur, co-chairman of the Tuesday Group, was not negotiating on their behalf.
But the Republican Party is no longer composed of moderates and centrists, and hasn't been for some time.
O'Rourke, who failed to get a breakout moment, and the primary contest's centrists, The Hill's Niall Stanage reports.
Both stood their ground in the face of attacks from centrists and their performances gained altitude with supporters.
Some centrists fighting to hang onto their seats are running away from Trump as fast as they can.
Centrists have a host of worries about the left's new agenda, the first being that it's politically risky.
Such centrists exist of course, but many independents have abandoned their respective parties for not being extreme enough.
Because if Brad Ashford can't win, it's hard to see how centrists without worse name recognition can elsewhere.
"It bodes well for moderates and centrists," said Cuellar, who said he had discussed his race with Lipinski.
For respectable centrists, it was an expensive distraction from the more pressing work of scaling up clean energy.
But the new center, she added, will ideally help progressives convey their ideas to all Democrats, including centrists.
Analysts have said she appeals to both centrists and conservatives, and could still win over some undecided voters.
Until this fall, most centrists had hoped that former Vice President Joe Biden would keep Sanders at bay.
And as the Labour Party moves further to the left and the Conservatives rightward, centrists find themselves adrift.
Centrists frequently voice fears that he could be too far to the left for the nation at large.
The past few years have seen extraordinary changes in how left-wingers, liberals, and liberal centrists understand themselves.
Max Rose, a moderate freshman and a member of the bipartisan group of centrists called the Problem Solvers Caucus.
In former communist states, the center-leftists frequently shift leaders and make alliances with centrists or even far rightists.
Centrists have been punished: Angela Merkel for inviting in too many refugees, Emmanuel Macron for his climate-friendly policies.
The Democrats have a chance, if and only if, it&aposs a big if, the centrists like me emerge.
Both are pitching themselves as pragmatic centrists in an effort to draw New Hampshire's undeclared voters to their campaigns.
Clinton seems more likely to appoint establishment-friendly figures to run her government and cautious centrists to the bench.
As a result, policy on Asia remains largely in the hands of centrists steeped in America's long-standing alliances.
Centrists don't just need to build a traditional party infrastructure, with MPs, local offices and dutiful but tame members.
INGRAHAM: We just talked to Bob Goodlatte on the show and he&aposs very concerned about these immigration centrists.
It's a pretty explicitly lefty undertaking, so maybe there's no hope of any self-described centrists getting on board.
It would have encouraged voters to flirt with centrists, knowing they could make Jeremy Corbyn's Labour their second preference.
Though complete results are not yet in, moderates and centrists look likely to control the new chamber (see article).
She's throwing muscle behind the party's moderates, recognizing the electoral reality that centrists are key to maintaining the majority.
But many on the left have pointed out that solid Democratic centrists also didn't do particularly well on Tuesday.
Emanuel's chief strategy—recruiting centrists to tip Republican districts—is now at odds with the party's energized progressive base.
These days, however, it often seems as if the centrists, not the progressives, are out of touch with reality.
Pressure to take action on this issue had led to a near revolt by vulnerable GOP centrists this summer.
But these centrists feel that many Democrats, maybe even most of them, are being drowned out by the left.
The resolution has divided the Senate Democratic caucus, which ranges from red-state centrists to progressives such as Sens.
Beyond the three centrists, McConnell does not have many prospects for cooperation on taxes in the Senate Democratic caucus.
Next, across Europe, centrists consistently present populism as on the rise, amplifying a false sense of success and momentum.
They also trample on the rights of Americans who may be conservatives, independents, centrists and liberals on the left.
Most others, however, are trying to avoid offending the fervent Trump followers while not alienating more independent-minded centrists.
The revised legislation will include concessions to centrists and conservatives designed to win the necessary 51 votes for passage.
Her minor characters—villains—might be petty or have bad politics (centrists), but her protagonists lack spite and bile.
Centrists The energy in the Democratic Party is very clearly on the left, and these debates didn't change that.
While House Freedom Caucus members seem to back the compromise en bloc, centrists have been less enthusiastic, including Rep.
Bayh, who for years was one of the Senate's most prominent centrists, does particularly well among self-described moderates.
Twenty Republicans voted against the bill, most of them centrists representing swing districts that Democrats are targeting in 2018.
But Macron's iPhone-wielding Sun King act contrasts starkly with the praise American liberals and centrists lavished on him.
Some centrists won't support a bill that scraps expansion or want a longer delay before the changes are implemented.
Independents are often not so much committed centrists as they are unusual cocktails of right- and left-wing positions.
The revised legislation will include concessions to centrists and conservatives in an effort to win 51 votes for passage.
Centrists say this is all wrong, that partisanship itself is the problem and moderation and compromise is the solution.
The party's resident "sensible centrists" are horrified: "Has the entire Democratic Party forgotten the words 'George McGovern'?" they cry.
"I think it helps people make decisions," Tester said of the two centrists dropping out of the race.   Sen.
Biden has benefited from centrists coalescing around his campaign after his South Carolina win, with former South Bend, Ind.
Centrists pushed back on McConnell on Friday, asking for more funds for Medicaid and for low-income policyholders. Sens.
His only natural home is with the centrists, whose standing with the Democratic base is very much in decline.
Then, centrists who used to fear Warren was the end of the party are starting to levitate towards her.
When Warren's later statements called Soleimani's killing an "assassination," she was criticized by pundits and centrists for being disingenuous.
Among the leaders the lack of drama in Georgia probably best suited the two centrists—Messrs Biden and Buttigieg.
It created a "super PAC" so that members of Congress who vote as centrists can get some political protection.
Centrists have raised questions about whether their constituents would be better off with ObamaCare than the GOP replacement bill.
Is it safer to go for centrists such as Amy Klobuchar or long-tenured politicians such as Joe Biden?
Europe's next chapter will, it seems, be written by centrists, not by the far-right or traditional social democrats.
The French president was the poster boy for pro-European centrists, as popular at home as he was courted abroad.
But the consultancy received its responses before Mr Macron and other centrists in Austria and the Netherlands had won power.
Centrists may carp — and worry about Sanders's chances in a general election — but he is now the candidate to beat.
The former mayor's appeal is straightforward: He is catering to centrists but also presenting himself as a harbinger of change.
If centrists like Mrs Merkel now see burqa bans as minor concessions to hold off populists, they are fooling themselves.
But the California Republican&aposs warning did little to stop the centrists&apos momentum on their so-called discharge petition.
But I think Republicans, too, with their anti- immigration policies are going to alienate a lot of centrists in America.
Trump and GOP leaders agreed to some of those changes, but that appeared to cost them the support of centrists.
Serious splits among defense hawks, conservatives, appropriators and centrists are making the effort to cobble together a Republican budget difficult.
Twenty Republicans voted against the bill, most of them centrists hailing from swing districts that Democrats are targeting in 85003.
The opposition from Dent, as a leader of the Tuesday Group, could also bring more centrists to oppose the bill.
Old guard liberals are fading across the continent, as politics become a battle between nationalist populists and more global centrists.
The centrists demanded Lofoten be closed as part of the price for ensuring the minority government a majority in parliament.
There are panels devoted to assessing what happened in 2016, but they are staffed by old hands and political centrists.
A Freedom Caucus spokeswoman defended the group on Monday, noting that centrists were also integral to bringing down the legislation.
Still, even some progressives wonder if Warren can win over centrists, particularly because of her tough rhetoric on Wall Street.
To declare victory, European centrists must quickly learn lessons from those who overcame populist tactics, including U.S. Democrats in 2628.
Elsewhere, such as in France and Spain, voters have deserted them for new parties led by centrists, populists or both.
In the end, they couldn't convince several of their colleagues, conservatives and centrists alike, to go along with their plan.
Now, the Cruz amendment has been included in the bill and the Medicaid cuts remain, putting centrists on the spot.
Centrists say it could gut the federal requirement that insurance companies not discriminate against people with pre-existing medical conditions.
Waiting in the wings are the leaders of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, the centrists anchoring Ms. Rousseff's coalition government.
Centrists say that if they don't also get a vote on their bill they will vote no on the rule.
Twenty Republicans voted against the bill, most of them centrists hailing from swing districts that Democrats are targeting in 2018.
Given that, Fajardo may be able to win enough support from centrists who dislike Petro to reach the second round.
There are liberals, neoliberals, democratic socialists, leftists, conservatives, neoconservatives, centrists, paleoconservatives, libertarians, and New Democrats, to name just a few.
Senate Republican leaders are focused on winning over centrists as they try to revive their legislation repealing and replacing ObamaCare.
To many leftists, these criticisms felt like a smokescreen to distract from centrists' unwillingness to confront more fundamental class divides.
But Fujimori won only because Peru's leftists and centrists swung behind him for the sole purpose of sinking Vargas Llosa.
Centrists, with the support of the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, favor incremental moves to shore up the Affordable Care Act.
The White House worked aggressively to defeat a measure backed by the Common Sense Coalition, a bipartisan group of centrists.
She tried hard to win over Conservative hard-liners, but made little effort to win allies among Remainers and centrists.
But now he is the challenger with momentum, thanks to an unorthodox campaign that has reached out to some centrists.
In the past few weeks Mr Trump has won ovations from Washington centrists and cable shows, such as Morning Joe.
Today, this false equation is being pushed by pundits on the right and, until now less loudly, by liberal centrists.
Centrists worry the GOP's changes to Medicaid could cause more uninsured residents in their states amidst a nationwide opioid epidemic.
She's emerged over the past five-ish years as the face of the fading group of centrists within the Senate.
But a key part of centrism's appeal is the belief that centrists are realists, who understand how the world works.
Those members balked at conservatives wanting the same repeal of Obamacare regulations that centrists were leery of axing last week.
Apolitical institutions have to decide whether they will treat ethno-centrists like Trump and Le Pen differently from other politicians.
The revised bill will include concessions to centrists and conservatives in an effort to win the 51 votes for passage.
Except now, it is not centrists calling for a greater focus on economic issues, but a broader constellation of Democrats.
His niche is as a conservative who is purportedly more electable than Trump or Cruz and more acceptable to centrists.
Centrists raved that Mr. Trump might at long last be enforcing universal norms of the so-called liberal international order.
Now, the fact that centrists are getting things wrong shouldn't be taken as a sign that progressive candidates did great.
He said Mr. Manchin and other Democrats claimed to be centrists but refused to negotiate on health care or taxes.
That's why I used to mock centrists and media figures who preached the need for austerity as Very Serious People.
Her backing "could turn out progressives and turn off centrists in the suburban Chicago district," writes the Chicago Sun Times.
The centrists are cannibalizing one another The New Hampshire results show a strong appetite among Democratic voters for a moderate candidate.
Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg, two centrists who are newly mauling each other, will move on to Nevada and South Carolina.
He has also attracted centrists such as François Bayrou, Jean-Louis Borloo and Sylvie Goulard, a member of the European Parliament.
Driving the news: Progressives and centrists are going at each other before any of them have stepped onto a debate stage.
Centrists were spooked by the amendment, which exposed them to the attack that they were undermining Obamacare's protections for sick people.
Centrists and liberals see the past 25 years as a success, marked by economic growth, democracy and a return to Europe.
The centrists object to demands from conservatives that states be given waivers that would allow them to repeal certain ObamaCare requirements.
Centrists and liberals warn of "Orbanisation", fearing that Poland is following the illiberal path of Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister.
The centrists' economic fight waged by National Economic Council director Gary Cohn and others will get easier but it's not over.
For example, Senate leaders are still coming under pressure from centrists to make the Medicaid portion of the bill more generous.
The Hill: GOP centrists are in danger of being wiped out this fall, leaving a more conservative House caucus behind them.
In a nod to centrists, the bill does not fully phase out extra federal funding for ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion until 2628.
Ouch. The criticism stings because Srnicek and Williams aren't wing nuts of the right, or stodgy suits, or even quailing centrists.
Ryan's strategy was successful in scuttling a revolt by GOP centrists hoping to force votes on four immigration bills this month.
Twenty-six Democrats backed it, including a number of centrists who won election last fall in swing districts, such as Reps.
Centrists must be relentless and unified in emphasizing how quickly bad populist policies can hurt voters' wallets while evidence is mounting.
But those calls from progressives have split the Democratic Party, with centrists and party leaders reluctant to back eliminating the agency.
The 85033 Republicans who voted against the stopgap were mostly members of the Freedom Caucus, but included two Florida centrists — Reps.
Even among self-identified centrists, opinion was split three ways on the issue of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Republican centrists will have to show their cards on immigration Tuesday after a month of gamesmanship within the House Republican Conference.
Centrists are also pushing for a longer glide path for phasing out federal dollars that allowed 31 states to expand Medicaid.
Democratic centrists note that she is splitting the progressive vote with Mr. Sanders, while moderates have increasingly coalesced around Mr. Biden.
But if there are any centrists, progressives, libertarians, or apolitical people interested in trying something new, I say, please join us.
I spoke with five centrists in an attempt to figure out what exactly they would do that isn't being done already.
Yeah, he's a very nice guy, and, yeah, he's running a moderate campaign that could appeal to a lot of centrists.
The upcoming face-off between the two will likely illustrate the deep divide between centrists and progressives within the Democratic Party.
Here's the latest: • Sweden's centrists prevailed in national elections Sunday, even as the country's far right had its best turnout ever.
Asked about the idea backed by Pence and the Freedom Caucus that worries centrists and traditional Republicans, Ryan downplayed any problems.
Opinion Columnist Look, I know the primaries aren't over, and it's still possible that Democratic centrists will get their act together.
Community rating controversy One of the biggest controversies splitting conservatives from centrists has to do an insurance practice called community rating.
Polls put PiS far in the lead; one this week gives it 43% of the vote, compared with the centrists' 28%.
There will be those dissatisfied that this page is not throwing its weight behind a single candidate, favoring centrists or progressives.
In the end, they couldn't convince several of their colleagues, conservatives and centrists alike, to go along with their plan. Sen.
Even some of the few centrists who might be open to convicting Trump have suggested they are concerned by the process.
Iran's leaders disqualified more than 122,000 candidates, including most moderates and centrists, paving the way for tougher domestic and foreign policies.
But some centrists in crucial swing districts are expressing concern that the persistent focus on impeachment and related investigations could backfire.
It's more popular than Obamacare and way more popular than the health insurance companies that centrists are so sure everyone loves.
But centrists like former Vice President Joe Biden maintains that Democrats should instead build on ObamaCare and expand access to care.
A mix of centrists and conservatives objected to the earlier ObamaCare bill, forcing GOP leaders to call off a planned vote.
PiS won a landslide election last October, unseating long-ruling centrists on a promise of more economic fairness and national pride.
And, contrary to conventional wisdom, legislators who represent competitive districts are no more likely to be centrists than are other legislators.
Total support for candidates who can plausibly be called moderates or centrists (at least relatively speaking) stands at just 220006 percent.
In his last campaign, in 2014, he had no Democratic or Republican opposition despite years of tangling with liberals and centrists.
On the other side, centrists still prefer the pursuit of bipartisanship, which typically means a policy approach centered on carbon pricing.
Over a week, I met many voters who say they will cast their ballot on April 9 for the centrists. Why?
Michelle Goldberg argues that the most effective pushback to the populist right has come from the populist left, not from centrists.
Based on the past week of talks, McConnell seems to be trying to sweep the middle — winning over centrists like Sen.
Her performance echoed similarly strong showings from centrists in French presidential and legislative elections earlier this year, raising the hopes of Ciudadanos.
The study found that 69 percent of UKIP members identify as being right of centre, while just 15 percent consider themselves centrists.
Senior centrists, it would appear, prefer to wait for criminal indictments to unseat Mr Netanyahu, rather than take on the challenge themselves.
By contrast, the Democratic candidates who most outperformed Clinton's statewide results — Missouri's Jason Kander and Indiana's Evan Bayh — ran as economic centrists.
Buttigieg seems like the likeliest option, but there's a slew of other centrists on the stage in that first debate night too.
Kaine is too similar to Clinton in damaging ways: They're both pragmatic centrists, party insiders, and longtime inhabitants of the Beltway establishment.
He is broadly popular, although his decision to place some eccentric right-wingers in key roles within the party has disappointed centrists.
Long derided by conservatives and centrists as socialist fantasy, single-payer health care (sometimes called Medicare for All) is having a moment.
So various new groupings are trying to circumvent the parties and provide rallying points for centrists of all tribal allegiances and none.
Klein's article also speaks to the inability of many liberal centrists to take right-wing extremism seriously as a coherent ideological foe.
Given the option, they will sometimes identify as moderates or centrists, but this tells us very little about how they will vote.
Assuming centrists offer a different vision for the Democratic Party, why should Schultz be assumed to be the spokesperson of this constituency?
It follows weeks of talks involving conservatives, centrists and leaders of the House GOP conference about how to move forward on immigration.
And for Democratic centrists, middle-of-the-road Republicans are also ideal voters since they are unlikely to demand large government programs.
Many centrists represent states that accepted the 2628 healthcare law's Medicaid expansion and don't support the legislation's provisions to roll it back.
For years, centrists such as Collins have complained that partisan battles between party leaders have crowded out debates on the Senate floor.
Some of those funding sources would likely be unpopular and could prove politically perilous to centrists who face tough elections next year.
There was some drama on this issue as liberals and centrists sparred over the Democratic climate and energy platform in recent days.
In response to this bold new agenda for a more equal, just, and democratic society, neoliberal centrists have expressed distaste and fear.
Centrists have struggled for months to prop up a viable moderate candidate, with several establishment figures having been tarnished by corruption scandals.
Centrists, liberals and even people within Mr. Moon's own party have all suffered what appear to be concerted attacks from his followers.
Those who caused the current situation to exist are "true believers" who must be replaced by centrists open to evidence and reason.
Centrists don't usually play hardball with leadership, but they are employing aggressive tactics after growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of action.
But centrists warn that if he becomes the nominee his left-wing views could alienate moderate voters and hand Trump re-election.
"Liberals are always going to have to compromise with centrists if they are going to be a majority at all," he argues.
But changing the bill to meet demands from the right has caused some centrists to announce that they will oppose the legislation.
For decades, Virginia Democrats have taken care to distinguish themselves from their more liberal national party and present themselves as prudent centrists.
Centrists in the House argue the conservative demands are implausible since any final spending bill will require Democratic support in the Senate.
Ideological differences between centrists and progressives have characterized the presidential race, with Biden to the right of Warren and fellow progressive Sen.
" Still, some centrists in attendance were highly skeptical such a bipartisan plan could work, calling the "kumbaya" meeting a "waste of time.
Republican senators spent the recess downplaying the chances of a quick vote on the bill with centrists and conservatives still deeply divided.
The list of new impeachment supporters spans the ideological spectrum, including liberal holdouts, vulnerable centrists, committee chairs and party icons like Rep.
And many centrists have turned out to have a double standard, reserving passionate concern about debt for times when Democrats hold power.
As worried centrists have long noted, it can be hard to rally the people behind a message of pragmatism, compromise and limits.
Centrists have long held that the electorate is ideologically moderate and temperamentally cautious and will penalize political parties for nominating ideologically extreme candidates.
One of those theories is beloved by self-styled centrists, and has served as a way to gate-keep against more liberal candidates.
JF: Your first episode you looked at socialism and you spoke with some socialist allied Democrats who are challenging the centrists in primaries.
A lot is likely to depend on whether the party's centrists will gain the upper hand, and perform well in the mid-terms.
States can opt out of the Obamacare provisions — a win for the Freedom Caucus — but there isn't a clear victory for the centrists.
What remains to be seen is whether Sanders and Warren break their detente, or whether they end up pitted against some thirsty centrists.
This geographic divide—in addition to the ideological split between liberals and centrists on the team—was just the beginning of the problems.
Another Senate Democratic source said centrists who appeared open to backing Gorsuch after meeting with him personally are now starting to pull back.
Nor was there a triumph for its rival, Fianna Fail, a party of pragmatic centrists who descend from opponents of the 1921 deal.
"I don't have a whip count," MacArthur said, acknowledging some centrists still have concerns with the draft proposal that became public this week.
House leaders planned to vote Thursday on the legislation that was revamped in an attempt to attract hard-line conservatives and GOP centrists.
In doing so, the centrists found a voice that has often been drowned out during the first six months of the nominating contest.
A popular idea among many fiscal centrists and conservatives is to fix the finances of Social Security by increasing the full retirement age.
European centrists now are making the same mistake, highlighting the 85033 percent who vote populist instead of the 75 percent who do not.
Progressives and centrists clashed during a lively debate Tuesday, putting Democratic divides on full display over key issues like immigration and health care.
The most significant sticking point remains the ongoing disagreement between centrists and conservatives over how — or even whether — Dreamers can attain citizenship rights.
GOP centrists are digging in on the other side, pledging to kill any budget that deviates from the two-year, bipartisan budget deal.
Centrists in Netanyahu's government have argued a "nation-state" bill is unnecessary, noting the 1948 Declaration of Independence already proclaimed a Jewish state.
It is one of the key topic dividing Democratic centrists and those on the progressive wing of the party, including Sanders and Warren.
While it's true Illiberal Education was praised by some centrists, Louis Menand's New Yorker review found the book to be unconvincing and glib.
House Republicans are now discussing a deal that would do away with the requirements, which might win conservative votes but risks losing centrists.
Carlos Curbelo said with exasperation when CNN asked Wednesday if the time had come for centrists to borrow tactics from the far right.
That spurred Democratic centrists, led by Bill Clinton, to place greater emphasis on middle-class economic anxieties, moderate social values and national security.
But if concern about climate change comes from the military—a hallowed institution among centrists and Republicans specifically—these concerns have newfound power.
"There's a greater sense of solidarity and kinship between elite law school conservatives than elite law school centrists and liberals," Hauser told me.
Op-Ed Contributors Britons' vote to leave the European Union on June 23 incited a wave of panic among centrists across the Continent.
The Republicans in charge of government are full of extreme right-wingers, and the Democratic Party includes everyone from centrists to social democrats.
The centrists, led by Mr. Biden, advocated for more incremental change and a return to what they cast as pre-Trump-era normalcy.
Discontent with Mr. Brownback's policies, coupled with suburban skepticism of Mr. Trump, have led to a resurgence of sorts for centrists and liberals.
Now the centrists, with their political careers squarely on the line in the midterm elections this fall, are finally putting their foot down.
He fares about as well as Joe Biden and Mike Bloomberg, well-known centrists who don't support Medicare-for-all, against the president.
And McConnell already faces a challenge winning over centrists with the new bill keeping in place deep cuts to Medicaid that they oppose.
It's much harder to make the case for centrists who repeat manifestly false claims, especially if those claims were essentially right-wing propaganda.
Michael Bloomberg would reassure centrists but is an establishment figure in an anti-establishment moment, and he is particularly unproven in swing states.
Democrats must also defend centrists like Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire and Tina Smith of Minnesota who are up for re-election.
Conservatives fumed at centrists for balking at the repeal-only bill, noting that many of them voted for it just two years ago.
Most of the 20 defectors were centrists from populous states that could stand to lose from eliminating the state and local tax deduction.
The Democrats are immersed in an ongoing battle between centrists and progressives and a long way from coming up with a united message.
Most of the GOP lawmakers who co-sponsored the bill are centrists who are also expected to face tough reelections in 2018. Reps.
He's done the work, tracking the complex, intertwined dances of the radicals and the centrists, the local ministers and visiting heavyweights like King.
While Ms. Klobuchar's strategy may appeal to centrists and even moderate Republicans, it may alienate her from the progressive wing of her party.
This faction is sometimes called the "New York moderates" or "centrists," though in many respects they often seem to agree with the Republican establishment.
There are already whispers that centrists and old-guard members of her district's Democratic machine want to run a primary challenger against her soon.
Solberg had previously rejected a proposal from the Liberals and the Christian Democrats to remove Progress from the government in favor of the centrists.
"There's just too many centrists battling each other and it's playing right into Bernie's hands," said one Democrat who has raised money for Biden.
Even centrists, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democrats, cringe at Mr Erdogan's brand of Islamic nationalism and his clampdown on dissent.
" He predicted Corbyn's decisive victory would be "terminal for the Labour Party … it's going to be very difficult for the centrists to gain control.
ROMANIA - Big losses loomed for the ruling Social Democrats (PSD), according to exit polls, which put them tying for first place with opposition centrists.
And centrists would have a chance to craft a more moderate alternative with the White House and Democrats and get a vote on that.
Unlike her, he will lack a majority in congress and will have to woo the Christian Democrats, centrists who belonged to Ms Bachelet's coalition.
Many of those inclined to oppose the revised bill are centrists who come from districts where they are at risk of losing re-election.
We are a country of centrists and one of the few in the Western world that has never had successful communist or fascist parties.
Holmes said legislation restricting certain abortion practices could also come to the floor closer to Election Day, presenting tough votes for embattled Democratic centrists.
And other centrists, in addition to disliking the changes, have problems with the new bill that were never addressed by the Meadows-MacArthur talks.
The growing divisiveness of American politics has energized the left and right, but is causing political centrists to become ever more enervated and despairing.
It is time for liberals and centrists to stop saying they are capitalists and for left-wing Democrats to stop saying they are socialists.
The PiS government accuses the opposition, strongly pro-EU centrists it ousted in last year's election, of orchestrating the protests and criticism from Brussels.
They were successful in preventing the discharge petition from hitting the needed 85033 signatures by promising a pair of on-the-fence centrists — Reps.
He insists that she is on the far left; she insists, much more plausibly, that she is one of the remaining centrists in Congress.
A mix of centrists and conservatives objected to the earlier ObamaCare replacement bill, forcing GOP leaders to call off a planned vote in March.
Finally, while she has advocated for younger leaders, she has tended to privilege corporate-friendly centrists like Hakeem Jeffries over progressives like Barbara Lee.
The split between the centrists and liberals on Tuesday night was back on full display once again on Wednesday, with moderates such as Sen.
Since then, the legislation went under significant changes to win over support from conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus as well as some centrists.
Most of the 20 defectors were centrists hailing from populous states that could stand to lose from eliminating the state and local tax deduction.
Two more House Republicans have joined the discharge petition to force votes on immigration, potentially leaving centrists just two signatures short of success. Reps.
Dividing lines: On one side: Centrists and establishment Democrats, driven by respect for norms and a belief that public service deserves respect and civility.
Republicans also face challenges because of opposition to the healthcare bill from centrists worried that it will leave millions of Americans without health insurance.
That may not be realistic, as centrists often represent swing districts that Democrats have a better chance of flipping than those represented by conservatives.
The proposal MacArthur authored with Meadows ultimately helped get more conservatives and centrists on board for the narrow 85033-213 passage earlier this month.
Schumer, pressed by centrists worried that Democrats would be blamed for the shutdown, did so on Monday —and liberals have been attacking ever since.
Ms. Aksener says she is uniquely placed to draw support from right-wing nationalists and more liberal centrists who are disenchanted with Mr. Erdogan.
But these aren't very deep divisions, certainly nothing like the divisions between liberals and centrists that wracked the party a couple of decades ago.
Again, it is an uphill challenge and a smaller scale test of the criticism Sanders now faces from centrists on the presidential campaign trail.
"There will be those dissatisfied that this page is not throwing its weight behind a single candidate, favoring centrists or progressives," the board writes.
Yet some of the changes that conservatives want appear at odds with the changes being sought by centrists, creating a bind for GOP leadership.
About three-quarters of the current members of Parliament, where moderates and centrists make up a near majority, were barred from seeking re-election.
The lack of support for Sanders' big ideas on health care, the environment and tax policy among Democratic centrists suggests major internal fights ahead.
The coverage has slanted negative, filled with the worries that centrists have — that the tax wouldn't work in practice or would slow economic growth.
And while he profoundly disagrees with the "centrists and progressives" on certain matters, he said, people cannot be compelled to leave the Methodist church.
The Freedom Caucus had pushed for roughly double the $203 billion in required mandatory cuts, while centrists decried the partisan approach to the budget.
On some issues, Tory policy is now more progressive than that of centrists like Biden, who oppose National Health Insurance-style state-funded healthcare.
What if we defined the centrists first as those people who do not see politics or the world generally in black and white terms.
Most of the 2023 defectors were centrists hailing from populous states that could stand to lose from eliminating the state and local tax deduction.
After years of watching their countries divided, inflamed, frightened, and drifting angrily to the extremes, centrists in both nations may have finally had enough.
Because we lack a varied vocabulary in mainstream political discourse, we call the latter "moderates" or "centrists," which doesn't capture the dynamic at work.
Hardened against the centrists of their parents' generation, they have tugged the party to the left, opening up rifts that are now fracturing Labour.
When an impasse over immigration forced a brief partial closure in January, Democratic leaders abandoned their position under pressure from centrists to back down.
All of the centrists except for Smith and Dent represent districts being targeted by the House Democratic campaign arm for the 2018 midterm elections.
In a country where oil and coal are the top export earners, Petro's pledges to end extractive industries have dismayed business leaders and centrists.
They are mostly targets who care about public opinion, who rely on the support of centrists and liberals, but have made some bad decisions.
Europe's centrists have begun to see themselves as modern-day defenders of the Alamo, desperately standing their ground as marauding populists advance on all sides.
That puts centrists who resisted endorsing impeachment for months — for fear it would overshadow the issues they campaigned on last year — in a tough spot.
If he does, there will be an outpouring of praise from self-proclaimed centrists, who will declare Kasich the sensible, responsible Republican of their dreams.
Since it was introduced in December 2014, debate over the bill has been fractious, as centrists within Bachelet's coalition demanded some provisions be watered down.
One silver lining is this: Trump is so polarizing that he's forced liberal centrists, cautious types to get off the fence and take a position.
While conservatives have complained that the measure does not go far enough to repeal ­ObamaCare, centrists in both chambers are concerned about people losing coverage.
He joins centrists John Williams of San Francisco and Dennis Lockhart of Atlanta who earlier this week said the Fed should consider an April hike.
Centrists warn that their constituents would lose coverage under the repeal bill, and some have even said that ObamaCare is better than the Republican bill.
In the view of centrists like Obama, bigness is no longer a menace to society—it's essential to the efficient functioning of the entire economy.
Many a time those with the political predilections of the dinner-party guests—liberal centrists, in other words—have struggled to work across that divide.
A very different combination of values comes from the liberal centrists who believe the country needs to be saved from Trumpist barbarism and leftist excesses.
No, we are the canary in the coal mine MORE (R), seems the prototype of a candidate who could benefit from an appeal to centrists.
An unofficial tally by Reuters of first round results showed conservatives won about 112 seats, reformers and centrists 90 and independents and religious minorities 29.
It should be balm to centrists' souls to hear Senate colleagues from both parties agree that Mr Kaine is a thoroughly decent and reasonable man.
Three GOP centrists, whose votes appeared to be in doubt, on Wednesday seemed to be shifting back towards Kavanaugh given Ford's decision to not testify.
The legislation in the House, a compromise between GOP centrists and conservatives, would stop the Department of Homeland Security from separating parents from their children.
The idea of a primary against Trump is very appealing to many centrists, as well as whatever remaining conservative critics of the president still exist.
Many defense experts, liberals and centrists as well as hawks, agree that more investment is needed in maintenance, training and modernizing aging weapons and equipment.
However, Fujimori's loyalists have divided the main opposition party and could help Kuczynski govern, possibly offsetting support that Kuczynski has lost from centrists and leftists.
In neighboring Florida, Democrats had managed to lose five consecutive governor's races by nominating milquetoast white centrists, even as the state voted twice for Obama.
One strategy under consideration is to team up with some Democrats, such as centrists in the Blue Dog Coalition, where there could be common interests.
The balancing act between conservatives and centrists is a crucial test of McConnell's leadership, with every move toward one side risking votes on the other.
Some centrists who voted "no" said they now could face primary challenges in 2018; those who voted "yes" have become bigger targets for Democrats.  Rep.
If Sanders's defeats have emboldened the party's centrists, Gabbard's weakness has soothed their nerves about the threat of her running as a third-party candidate.
They could be a reminder of what's hamstrung Democrats in the past: ceding ground to centrists who insist on largely unobjectionable — and uninspiring — white papers.
Besides the fact that he represents a key swing state, political observers think Brown is a Democrat who would appeal to both centrists and progressives.
In doing so, he may have helped give centrists who are hesitant about former Vice President Joe Biden a reason to give him another look.
He has chosen to make the legislation more appealing to conservatives like Ted Cruz of Texas, rather than to centrists like Susan Collins of Maine.
Her position changed when the president's controversy in Ukraine was revealed by a government whistleblower — and when centrists in her caucus backed an impeachment inquiry.
" However, he said, for centrists, Biden's figures are "troubling when you combine it with the numbers of the other so-called moderates in the race.
The main GOP working group on healthcare includes 13 men backed by Senate leadership who are seeking to bridge the divide between conservatives and centrists.
Candidates from every wing of the Democratic Party, from centrists like Biden to progressives like Warren, went out of their way to praise Obama's record.
Conservatives said it didn't go far enough to remove ObamaCare, while GOP centrists expressed concern for their constituents who had come to rely on ObamaCare.
Today's centrists remain plagued by the anxieties and contradictions that worried Schlesinger, calling for "bold moderation" while acknowledging that the two words fit uneasily together.
Now, a growing number of foreign policy experts, including centrists who deprecate the president, agree — and add Russia to the list of great power competitors.
Gillibrand focused on female candidates, who she supported through a PAC dubbed Off the Sidelines, backing a list of nearly 100 hopefuls, including some centrists.
Juppe is seeking to draw support from centrists and left-wing voters determined to prevent a Sarkozy comeback or Le Pen's National Front from winning power.
So getting Democrats — from the more progressive left flank of the party to the more moderate centrists — all on the same page will be exceedingly difficult.
Mr Fillon, whose poll numbers are drifting down, must worry about Ms Le Pen grabbing voters from the right, just as Mr Macron appeals to centrists.
The two Democrats who voted against the resolution — Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey — are both centrists in tight races.
The party argues that centrists are better positioned to win in districts like Nebraska's 2nd, which Trump won by a narrow 2-point margin in 2016.
On the other hand, they also need a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in the general election, which may involve appealing more overtly to centrists.
All three lawmakers have sought to present themselves as centrists with ambitions to unite the country, although none are expected to catch the frontrunners before Sunday.
"The centrists must come back to us, that's how we will win," said Christian Jacob, head of The Republicans' group in the lower house of parliament.
The centrists also want to increase the amount of the new tax credits in the bill to give more help to low-income people and seniors.
Amending the proposal so it's more palatable to House conservatives could also potentially alienate centrists and make it even harder to pass in the Senate. Sen.
When you line people up by the issues, most are a heterogeneous collection of pragmatists, centrists, conflicted, and, frankly, clueless in some cases — just not ideologues.
Written primarily by chief speechwriter Dan Schwerin, the speech was meant to motivate the Democratic base while making an appeal to undecided centrists — including some Republicans.
So when liberals and centrists in the Democratic Party say they are capitalists, what they really should be saying is that they support the mixed economy.
But allowing timid centrists and hostile Republicans to set the boundaries for what's possible locks in limited possibilities and sends a demoralizing message to the electorate.
The 17 Democrats who voted for the bill to proceed on Tuesday are either centrists or facing reelection in states that Donald Trump won in 2016.
Whether or not the sum of money he quoted is accurate, Trump's overarching point is fair — and that will send yet another shudder through GOP centrists.
He has plenty of similarities with his fellow Virginian: They are both centrists and served as governor of the commonwealth before making it to the Senate.
Collins and Manchin formed a group of centrists now known as the Common Sense Coalition during the 2013 government shutdown, when conservatives led by Texas Sen.
As with the House effort to repeal and replace the health-care law, GOP leaders will have to balance accommodating demands from both centrists and conservatives.
Following the discussion, Meadows threatened to sign a discharge petition backed by Democrats and GOP centrists who had demanded a series of votes on immigration members.
It is already a serious question as to whether the measure has enough votes to pass the House, where both conservatives and centrists have strong objections.
And, in a field where the other top-tier candidates can be clearly divided into progressives (Sanders and Warren) and centrists (Biden and South Bend, Ind.
But as it became increasingly repressive, and after General Pinochet announced his intention to remain in office indefinitely, Mr. Aylwin, like other centrists, became an opponent.
After weeks of closed-door negotiations between the centrists and conservatives, members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus huddled Tuesday night to weigh their options.
The California Republican suggested the sides are too far apart to reach a deal by the June 12 deadline a number of the centrists are eyeing.
Denham said he believes all parties are negotiating in good faith, but said the centrists are ready to move forward with the discharge petition when needed.
The delay comes as leadership has struggled to secure 85003 votes for the measure, which is the product of weeks of negotiations between centrists and conservatives.
A separate proposal introduced by a group of Senate centrists last year failed to break a 60-vote filibuster after Trump threatened to veto it. Sen.
Of the three most disputed parts of the reforms, two provisions were passed by the Senate after being watered down by Christian Democrats and other centrists.
While Sanders has energized the progressive wing, Biden has focused on rallying centrists around him, and both have argued they are better suited to defeat Trump.
Raja Shehadeh slams that door — not only in Halevi's face but in the faces of all Israeli centrists, who endure the criticisms of Jewish right-wingers.
False equivalence, portraying the parties as symmetric even when they clearly aren't, has long been the norm among self-proclaimed centrists and some influential media figures.
In the past, Mr. Netanyahu might have reached out to centrists to explore an alternative coalition, or at least to force a compromise on the right.
Though she finally reached out beyond her own party, in hopes of cobbling together a coalition with Labour centrists, she did so tentatively, and too late.
But given the makeup of the districts where the midterm elections will be decided, simply holding the vote could be a selling point for some centrists.
Meanwhile our centrists, along with much of the news media, spent years in denial about the radicalization of the G.O.P., engaging in almost pathological false equivalence.
Virginia Republicans have not won a statewide race in Virginia since 2009, and centrists like Mr. Davis point to the Senate primary field to explain why.
Scott Walker, while Kirk must concentrate more on luring centrists who disagree with the GOP's opposition to gay marriage and moving the Supreme Court process forward.
No, I'm talking about fanatical centrists, who aren't a large slice of the electorate, but have played an outsize role in elite opinion and media coverage.
" Will from New York (via email): "Virtually all voices you cited who had positive views of Bloomberg would generally be described as conservative-centrists or conservatives.
Hopefully, this time it will be the forward looking progressives rather than the "play it safe" centrists who win the day and make Ella Baker proud.
Despite Trump's current dominance over the GOP, Ros-Lehtinen expressed optimism that the party will still be a place for centrists like herself, former Florida Gov.
They say he would bridge the divide between progressives and centrists in the party and offer a direction at a time when the party lacks it.
But on Tuesday they delayed a vote until at least after the July 4 recess because of defections from conservatives and centrists in the GOP conference.
Some mainstream pundits are simply repeating what they hear from Democratic Party conservatives and centrists, the wing that has been dominant since Clinton's election in 1992.
If every Democrat supported the group's proposal — which is not guaranteed — the centrists would need the votes of 2900 GOP senators for a bill to pass.
Though Democrats will not help pass tax reform, there are plenty of centrists in Congress, including some from blue states, that will need to be wooed.
Several centrists have declined to back the push, expressing worries it could further divide the country or even backfire on Democrats heading into the 2020 elections.
Pelosi and her leadership team have long rejected the idea of impeaching Trump, wary of the potential blowback against vulnerable centrists at the polls next year.
Professional "centrists," whose whole identity is bound up with pretending that there is equivalence between the two parties, desperately wanted a Serious, Honest Conservative to praise.
Centrists, moderates, fiscal conservatives, whatever you called yourself to justify voting for Trump, it's time to step up and stand on the right side of wrong.
Both Dugdale and Welsh Labour leader Carwyn Jones are Labour centrists, meaning, in theory, they would more than likely appoint moderates rather than supporters of Corbyn.
The senator's frequent comments denouncing President Donald Trump soured his reputation among the Republican base but did not earn him many fans among centrists or the left.
As one of the few centrists in the bitterly divided Senate, Collins has often cast herself as a bridge between Republicans and Democrats in seeking bipartisan compromises.
Juppe, 71, presents himself as a more modern centrist, able to win a majority of open-minded conservatives, centrists, undecided voters and even some left-wing voters.
In the first episode, we get a closer look at the wave of socialist and socialist-allied Democrats who are challenging centrists in primaries across the country.
The Bavarian lacks televisual charisma, has no executive experience and has alienated centrists and centre-leftists with his long association with Viktor Orban, Hungary's authoritarian prime minister.
In Germany last weekend the centrists clung on to power, after members of the Social Democratic Party approved a new "grand coalition" with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.
By contrast, moderates and centrists remain focused on its replacement, and ensuring that those who benefited from the law continue to have coverage under the new regime.
The conservatives say the state waivers would reduce premiums, but centrists worry the move would also put insurance out of reach for people with pre-existing conditions.
But a number of GOP aides have suggested it might not be enough to get the bill through the House because of continued opposition from centrists. Rep.
Republicans opposed to the bill included conservatives who said it failed to fully repeal ObamaCare and centrists who opposed parts of it for reducing access to healthcare.
Until Labour comes to its senses, those who oppose the government—particularly centrists and the 48% who voted to stay in the EU—will be poorly represented.
A group of centrists is eyeing a narrow deal that would just include a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and border security.
And the second proposal, a more moderate compromise between GOP centrists and conservatives, is still being drafted, and there's no guarantee it will win 218 votes, either.
As early as next month, House leaders will have to reckon with the movement by GOP centrists to force a vote on immigration against Speaker Ryan's wishes.
Once Moore's credible accusers stepped forward, Jones stepped up his campaign, appealing to centrists with policy and rhetoric that galvanized African Americans, women and even young people.
READ: Warren and Sanders to the centrists: Go left or go home "They don't see an opportunity to come back [to the majority]," said former Virginia Rep.
To date, the debates have focused on the preferred media narrative — a gargantuan and TV-ready conflict between the centrists and the lefties over Medicare for All.
The two men's difficulties show how hard it is for centrists to win in states where politics is less and less local, even at a local level.■
And while Democratic voters have valued candidates' electability, the party's base, energized by opportunities to put checks on President Donald Trump, has shown little interest in centrists.
In the last Congress, battles between conservatives and centrists played themselves out during the failed attempt to repeal ObamaCare and the successful passage of Trump's tax cuts.
Scarborough's imbecilic tweets are merely an extreme example of an argument that's gaining salience among centrists and moderate Republicans: Kids today are lazy, socially isolated, and immature.
If all 193 Democrats sign the petition, as they are expected to, the centrists would need only five more Republican signatures for the petition to succeed. Rep.
And he has sought to portray Mr. Zeldin's sharp conservatism as out of touch with a district where, he said, many Republicans and Democrats consider themselves centrists.
By contrast, moderates and centrists remain focused on its replacement and ensuring that those who benefited from the law continue to have coverage under the new regime.
While she is being cheered on the Democratic left, centrists may react more warily, knowing that their voters sent them to Washington to compromise more than fight.
As Ezra Klein recently pointed out in The New York Times, the brute demographics of American politics make Democrats more electorally dependent on centrists than Republicans are.
Conservatives have been pushing for more spending cuts, but have met resistance from centrists who think the idea has no real shot at passing in the Senate.
Centrists, meanwhile, are also at peace with the notion of voting to remove Trump, even as they acknowledge the risk that their decision may affect reelection battles.
Some allied Democratic strategists agree with leadership aides who predict that vulnerable centrists have little to fear because Republicans would likely take the blame for a shutdown.
They could, however, effectively block the efforts of centrists to pass legislation, which has presented a challenge in the past even without such an imposing, disruptive bloc.
Some conservatives still joined with centrists wary of the fate of the state and local tax deduction out of concern for the budget's impact on the deficit.
Some centrists Democrats, meanwhile, have warned Pelosi and her leadership team that if the bill is yanked to the left, some of their moderate members will bolt.
While Democrat numbers in Texas were higher than normal, a lot of those numbers were in places where there were contested Democratic primaries, with progressives vs. centrists.
The centrists fight back Biden got some back-up on health care Thursday night from his fellow moderates in the race -- most pointedly, Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen.
But it is also the issue that divides the Democratic candidates the most, with Biden and other centrists proposing more modest steps, such as reforms to ObamaCare.
The fiscal deal cut this week between President Trump and Democratic leaders has Capitol Hill centrists hoping that an era of bipartisan comity may descend on Washington.
In the 2018 Florida Governor's race, the Democratic primary featured a showdown between the center and the left, between four centrists and a progressive liberal: Andrew Gillum.
The four centrists — including popular Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine and Gwen GrahamGwendolyn GrahamModerate Democrats now in a race against the clock Dear Iowans: Apologies for Sen.
Both campaigns say they are committed to maximizing turnout by their most rabid supporters rather than moderating in order to broaden their appeal to centrists and independents.
But Fox News increases Republican voting odds for centrists, for Democratic viewers, and even, in 2004 and 2008, for Republicans already strongly inclined to vote that way.
It is fashionable for centrists and some climate wonks to dismiss things like wage standards as tertiary, a way of piggybacking liberal goals onto the climate fight.
This is a good reason why self-proclaimed "centrists" and other supporters of bipartisanship should support electoral reforms that allow for more of a multi-party system.
Suozzi was a prominent member The Problem Solvers, a bipartisan group of centrists that tried to pull Pelosi to the right during her campaign to become speaker.
Whether you are chatting to millennial socialists, populist nationalists or frustrated centrists, the idea that democracy in the West is malfunctioning is likely to be acknowledged without hesitation.
"She had suffered her first major defeat on a border emergency package when she couldn't get centrists and progressives in her party to back a bill," Bade said.
Cohn, a Democrat, aligned himself in the constantly shifting White House power structure with fellow centrists such as Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and daughter Ivanka Trump.
Warsaw's ruling conservatives, long at loggerheads with Tusk's centrists, had argued the 59-year-old Pole was unfit for the job because of his criticism of their government.
The question, however, is why states that voted for non-racist candidates for decades flipped; why did voters who in the past supported centrists cast votes for Trump?
Macron, who was elected on May 7, designated Philippe, a conservative, to head a government gathering Socialists, Centrists, Republicans and political newcomers, smashing the traditional left-right divide.
It is not unusual for centrists and social democrats to govern together, especially when a major goal is to keep out right-wing and anti-immigrant populist parties.
The base looks like these members, who supported her bid for speaker, not like the centrists or Blue Dogs who have been trying to oust her for years.
But their informal "grand coalition" may well fall short of a majority, giving more influence to greens or centrists, as well as to growing anti-EU nationalist groups.
Overall, Tuesday's results prove that the problematic trend of far-left progressives winning Democratic primaries over moderate centrists continues, showing that the party is more divided than ever.
In these heavily Republican districts, the most successful Democratic challengers have been moderate centrists: wealthy business owners who are socially liberal but economically conservative; in other words, neoliberal.
I know it sounds impossible — progressives and centrists are at a seemingly insurmountable impasse and to think that one single person could unite the party is a fantasy!
When it comes to the centrists, a holdover argument from the Obamacare debate could work for the AHCA — but there's also an important difference between the two scenarios.
But that brings us to the crucial difference between the ACA and the AHCA, which could make it more difficult for the Republican bill to win over centrists.
GOP centrists in the House are fleeing from their party's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace legislation, complicating White House efforts to win passage in a vote scheduled for Thursday.
His remarks followed a flurry of meetings between Vice President Mike Pence, other top White House officials, the Tuesday Group of centrists and the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus.
On stage, Sanders and Warren were ironically squeezed in the middle of the pack, buffeted by rivals who were determined to make them seem like unelectable non-centrists.
Democratic control of the House began with good news and bad news for centrists who place the durability of the rule of law above short term partisan advantage.
Warner added the success of centrists this past week is part of a larger trend in Virginia, where candidates who run on centrist, fiscally responsible platforms do well.
Not all races have been decided, but it was clear that Tuesday was a particularly bad night for GOP House centrists, who were washed out in large numbers.
But if Ryan, Price and other GOP leaders agreed to go back to the lower sequester levels, they'll risk a separate revolt from centrists in their party. Rep.
All the while, the leadership of the opposition Labour Party, locked in a tug of war between its left wing and its centrists, was dissolving before Britons' eyes.
But polls suggest Biden is in the running in Iowa, as is Harris, who has sought to appeal to both centrists and progressives with her campaign so far.
In that, she differs from the Dixie Chicks, who were, by and large, country centrists right up until the moment Ms. Maines bad-mouthed President George W. Bush.
Blair is now an embarrassment, and his Labour Party is now run by an energized and expanded socialist membership, though not without some dissent from the displaced centrists.
But the long-time EU-critic, who called for Austria to consider leaving the bloc in 2005, will need the votes of Europe-friendly centrists to take power.
Reformists and pragmatic centrists had endorsed lists of candidates for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that will most likely select Iran's next supreme leader.
These days the Democratic Party can be split up in a similar way, with old-school centrists on one side and a utopian progressive wing on the other.
But there are no signs that the heated rhetoric has moved the needle on a handful of centrists who have yet to take a position on Kavanaugh's nomination.
I've talked to a bunch of centrists now and I'm still having a hard time understanding the difference between being a centrist and being a more conservative Democrat.
And it will be the electoral success or failure of embattled centrists, not House conservatives, that will determine whether Republicans are able to hold the House in November.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, what would have been impossible under a Clinton administration became very real with a Trump administration — too real for "realist" centrists like the Tuesday Group.
One major factor is the obsession of many German centrists with the so-called horseshoe theory of politics, where the far left and the far right are equivalent.
But an increasing number of centrists are quietly engaging with campaigns, particularly Biden, through conference calls and staff-to-staff contact, in the run-up to Iowa's caucuses.
Any further move to the left is ammunition for Republicans, centrists say, and risks the Democrats in 2020 being consigned to the same fate as Corbyn&aposs Labour.
But as the Senate continues to struggle to pass its own healthcare bill, and as centrists worry over the CBO's findings, that is looking like a costly error.
The centrists want GOP leaders to agree to changes to the bill before they will back their party on a key procedural vote as early as next week.
Democratic leaders finally decided to give the centrists what they wanted, allowing dozens of their members to back a GOP amendment that they knew Republicans would seize on.
The centrists, elected to seats held last year by Republicans, delivered Democrats their House majority, and their re-elections will be critical to keeping the party in power.
The third-largest group in the European Parliament, the liberal centrists to whom Macron's party belongs, must be part of the selection process, Macron told his German counterpart.
Collins and other centrists were put off by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office's projection on Monday that 22 million people would lose medical insurance under the existing bill.
The only Republican senator from New England has found herself among a dwindling number of GOP centrists like Arizona's John McCain who are willing to work across the aisle.
In Europe, it can be interpreted to include figures of the center-right like Angela Merkel and centrists like Emanuel Macron When did you start identifying as a neoliberal?
The Washington foreign policy debate is typically between centrists and neoconservatives over how heavily to intervene in foreign conflicts, rather than whether the United States should intervene at all.
The Democratic leadership tends to divide candidates into centrists, who can win in marginal districts, and lefties, who are fine in safe seats but will lose otherwise winnable ones.
And Sanders has favored sweeping, easy-to-understand plans that are at the vanguard of the party's most progressive wing — presenting himself as unbowed to the concerns of centrists.
They've said they're partnering with Ocasio-Cortez to find moderate Democrats to target in the primaries — and they're even asking the public for input about centrists to go after.
Turnbull's authority within his Liberal party, ranging from centrists to the harder right, was severely damaged and he repeatedly sought compromise positions on policies that included renewable energy targets.
Nominating Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (pictured with Mrs Merkel above), the moderate minister-president of the Saarland, as the new general secretary of the CDU pleased centrists in the party.
Many centrists are being driven so mad by the vote to leave that they haven't got the mental energy to think about why it happened in the first place.
In a recent interview, he angered party centrists by stating that the free movement of people within the E.U. means there can be no upper limit on immigration numbers.
Of late, she has been seeking to position herself as the unity candidate, acceptable both to the progressives who back Sanders and the centrists who favor Biden and Buttigieg.
Republicans are also split on the payments, as some centrists in the House and Senate would like to see the payments continue to avoid havoc in the healthcare system.
At a time when the Democratic Party is bitterly divided between the emboldened progressives and reeling centrists, Clark has carved out a space that fluctuates between the party's poles.
Bringing the Goodlatte bill to the floor would effectively end the discharge petition effort launched by centrists, but a leader of the petition drive insisted their work would continue.
Given its internal divisions, it has been unclear from the start whether the Democratic Party can harness the energy of its grassroots while also drawing in centrists and Republicans.
House Republicans fighting to limit their losses are sure to see candidates confronted with questions about their positions on Trump's birthright citizenship plan, putting centrists in a tough position.
That's a safer stance for a liberal congressman than a presidential candidate, and centrists rightly observe that public opinion hasn't caught up to a whole host of progressive priorities.
Centrists also came on board to back the bill due to an amendment requiring a study of the economic impact in the early stages of the wage hike's implementation.
On the economic front, the nationalist-minded PiS has accused Tusk's pro-business centrists of neglecting national interests for the sake of better relations with Germany and foreign corporations.
Stephens was trying to downplay the Democratic victory in order to push for his preferred path for the party (that it try to appeal to centrists rather than leftists).
The centrists' idea was straightforward and simple: Write a letter urging Trump to reopen the government for three weeks and, in that time, negotiate a compromise on border security.
Twenty-six Democrats, mostly centrists or lawmakers from states affected by recent hurricanes, declined to endorse their leaders' strategy and still supported the package in the original Monday vote.
Now that Republicans are in trouble, with some feeling that they have no choice except to vote Democratic, these same centrists are urging Democrats to … adapt by moving right.
The legislative stalemate comes after the Senate earlier this month rejected four proposals, including the White House framework and a narrower solution pitched by a key group of centrists.
That doesn't mean she believes all Democrats must be centrists; she just feels that her own politics happen to match perfectly with those of her suburban and rural district.
Centrists who are most likely to work with the Trump administration on tax reform or an infrastructure package are warning Republicans not to go forward with the rule change.
The statement from conservatives Thursday is an indication of the difficulty Republicans face in finding a sweet spot that can win support from conservatives and centrists in their party.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has rapidly become one of the party's most outspoken liberals, but also Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania and Collin Allred of Texas, two rising young centrists.
Harris voted against a Senate immigration bill backed by centrists from both parties earlier this month, waiting until the last minute to break with other liberals such as Sens.
" These centrists, Mr. Naftali says, were "defined by the dilemma of suspecting Nixon was impeachable when neither your political tribe nor your constituents wanted you to vote for impeachment.
If Democrats capture the House in November by only a narrow margin — perhaps half a dozen seats or fewer — a small cluster of stubborn centrists could wield enormous influence.
Pulling the United States out of the deal means Trump is siding with Bannon and his base over the objections of centrists in his government — and the business community.
A total of 85033 Democrats, mostly centrists or members from hurricane-affected states, refrained from endorsing their leaders' strategy and joined all but eight Republicans in supporting the bill.
And the only states voting through the end of April are filled with the sort of pragmatic centrists whom Mr. Kasich has targeted since entering the race last year.
The G.O.P.'s problems in the state are a symptom of the toxic political extremism that has forced sensible centrists to the margins of the party throughout the country.
Progressives worry that Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bloomberg are uninspiring centrists who resemble recent presidential losers and wouldn't solve America's problems even if they won.
For weeks, bottom-dwelling centrists in the Democratic primary have decried socialism while largely avoiding directly attacking Sanders, the only self-described democratic socialist in the 24-person primary.
Sanders appears set to post strong showings in several of the Super Tuesday contests as Buttigieg and a number of other centrists continue to split up the moderate vote.
The Brexit mess deepened, the auto industry shed more jobs, and both major political parties saw significant splits, as liberal centrists within them left to form a new group.
She drew big crowds as a top surrogate for congressional candidates in recent years and may be able to mobilize the party's grassroots in a way the centrists can't.
Centrists mobilized quickly against the repeal-and-delay plan on Tuesday morning, even as President Trump and some of his conservative allies ratcheted up the pressure to pass it.
An increasing number of GOP lawmakers, ranging from centrists to members of the far right, are expressing concern about repealing the law without a replacement plan ready to go.
Biden's team also points to polling showing that not only do centrists in the party like him, but that the overwhelming majority of Democrats are satisfied with the field.
Several centrists have voiced support for a potential impeachment inquiry in recent days, even as others waited for more information to be released before making a firm commitment. Rep.
The American people were not fooled then by the empty promises of Democratic Party centrists offering Band-Aid solutions to stem economic hemorrhaging, and they won't be fooled now.
And while Mr. Sanders has made private overtures toward centrists, his harpoons toward "corporate Democrats" and the scorched-earth tactics of his supporters have continued to unnerve Democratic leaders.
But the emerging conventional wisdom among Beltway centrists is the opposite: that Democrats overreached, tacking too far to the left and ending up with a mediocre-at-best result.
But rather than being hailed a hero, the New Jersey lawmaker has come under fire from GOP centrists, who are incensed he negotiated with Freedom Caucus ringleader Mark Meadows.
Sandberg dismissed concerns, most often voiced by party centrists who backed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primary, that a "tea party of the left" could harm Democrats on Election Day.
In Spain the equivalent established conservative party, the People's Party, is in similar decline, undermined by the liberal centrists of Ciudadanos and the new party of the far right, Vox.
Britain's centrists are hopelessly divided over the most basic strategic question: should they upturn British politics by starting a new outfit, or try to reclaim their ancestral parties from within?
Across France, Macron has promised not only to gather willing centrists from the main parties but also to field hundreds of new faces, around half of them from civil society.
But centrists want to hold onto important Obamacare requirements for covering people with pre-existing conditions and the expansion of Medicaid that is now providing coverage for millions of Americans.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers on Saturday's conference-wide call were told that they are getting closer to a deal between centrists and conservatives on healthcare legislation that could pass the House.
Centrists, however, pushed back on those changes and lawmakers emerged from that meeting two hours later without any apparent progress toward a deal, other than an agreement on risk sharing.
Apparently, our country's left-ish party has been cursed with wealthy centrists leading it forever and always, because Hillary Clinton has decided to dip her toes back into American politics.
Its two biggest population centers, Charlotte and the so-called Research Triangle of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, have been transformed by an influx of political centrists from other states.
Their seven-year campaign pledge to get rid of the 2628 law suffered a major blow after GOP leaders and President Trump couldn't stop a revolt from conservatives and centrists.
The further delay in the schedule is a problem for McConnell, as opponents of the legislation could use the extra time to pressure wavering GOP centrists to vote against it.
The incident underscored the tensions within the Democratic Party between progressives and centrists — some of whom won districts last fall that were carried by Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Beyond the well-appointed offices of the Bipartisan Policy Center on Eye Street, there is no mass of "centrists" or "moderates" hungry to split the differences between Democrats and Republicans.
On one side were centrists like Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan, and Steve Bullock, who tried to cast themselves as pragmatic progressives in a party that has shifted dramatically leftward.
And more recently, some presidential hopefuls have sought to pitch themselves as centrists willing to work across the aisle, while warning other Democrats against straying too far to the left.
The move carries some risk for Tester and Heitkamp as Trump and the GOP seek to tie centrists running in red states to liberal leaders in their party, including Warren.
While the energy of the Democratic base appears to be with the progressives right now, the path to the presidency requires a wider coalition of centrists, independents, and disenfranchised Republicans.
In tomorrow's debate, the two centrists could either team-tag the debate and provide backup for each other in debating the progressives on issues including healthcare, immigration, and climate change.
Centrists largely argue that the fight is self-defeating when it comes to getting the fast-track process set up for tax reform and setting the stage for government funding.
"  What is helping Buttigieg: "Democrats are ... battling over how far left to go in the primary, but Buttigieg may be a candidate who appeals to centrists without turning off liberals.
If the Freedom Caucus is successful in forcing a vote, centrists who are wary of repealing the law without a replacement plan ready would be put in an uncomfortable position.
Mr. Flake and his fellow right-wingers don't want centrists on the court and they will do everything they can to make sure no president, even a Republican, appoints one.
Should these trends trouble centrists, they can take comfort that they're probably right about this much: The left is shaping the Democrats' agenda now, but nothing is forever in politics.
That does not mean going back to an Eisenhower-era or even Nixon-era GOP, when centrists were key forces; it means a very conservative party by any reasonable measure.
But what Graetz and Shapiro, linked above, emphasize is that some of the blame rests on centrists and mild liberals, too: they never made the moral case for estate taxation.
Reformists and centrists favor greater economic ties with Western countries and, while they want to work within the Islamic Republic's system, they also seek to lift restrictions on political organizing.
Candidates such as Mike Bloomberg or Amy Klobuchar could easily experience a surge of support if centrists in the party start to fear that Sanders, and his policies, are unviable.
Some centrists echoed Republican attacks on Obamacare, saying that progressive candidates like Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren wanted to strip away voters' preferred plans by mandating government-provided insurance.
While other candidates are running campaigns tailored to the Democratic base, Biden's message, for the most part, is targeting centrists and independents, a move typically reserved for the general election.
In the healthcare debate, however, centrists had argued against repeal, arguing it was politically damaging and that the revenue from eliminating it could be used to shore up insurance markets.
And while the administration sees the changes as a sweetener for Democratic votes, Crowley said he was concerned the changes could lead to the trade deal losing support from centrists.
There was no single-payer system, and centrists like Senator Joe Lieberman blocked the creation of a public option that might coexist and compete with private options on the marketplaces.
Many of them ran in 2018 as centrists who could work with Trump on bipartisan issues and picked up key crossover support on their way to winning red-leaning districts.
Republicans in Congress have been deeply divided over Medicaid, with conservatives seeking to cut spending on the program but centrists from states where it was expanded under ObamaCare pushing back.
The record number of cosponsors for Norton's statehood legislation includes support from lawmakers representing the D.C. suburbs in Virginia and Maryland as well as liberals, centrists and key committee chairmen.
Few of the centrists are showing their cards a week out from the vote, but the spotlight is now turning to them as they hear from constituents on both sides.
Olsen: The conservative-populist alliance is increasingly becoming obviously the only way forward for non-Social Democrats who don't want to become catchall centrists like Emmanuel Macron or Justin Trudeau.
I'm pretty cynical about centrists and the propensity of the media to be taken in by charlatans, but I think this would probably be a bait and switch too far.
Democrats didn't lose much with centrists or conservatives by abandoning a commitment to "tough but fair" immigration enforcement, because they didn't get much credit from those groups to begin with.
If centrists are important to the Democratic chances of winning the House, they will be absolutely essential if the party is to defy the odds and take over the Senate too.
But Kaczynski's twin brother Jaroslaw, whose nationalist-minded Law and Justice party (PiS) unseated the centrists in an election last year, has said an onboard explosion could have caused the crash.
Both parties' nominees have record-high disapproval ratings in part because the candidates represent only one ideological faction of their respective parties: Clinton, the centrists, and Trump, the anti-immigrant populists.
Fifty-six percent now describe themselves as right-wing, up from 20013 percent over the same period, and the amount who say they are centrists is little changed at 26.5 percent.
That means that, as the midterm elections proved, there's less room for moderates or centrists in the current political environment — a dynamic that's likely to get worse before it gets better.
By forcing centrists to tack towards the fringe, Mr Trump's victory may strengthen the trend towards Euroscepticism in countries like France and the Netherlands, both of which hold elections next year.
Promoted by ALDE centrists in campaign, attacks on big U.S. firms' tax affairs raised profile; as a liberal and a woman, she could please Macron, Merkel and several liberal prime ministers.
She noted that after her warm interview with Singal she was lovebombed by "centrists and right wingers" who offered false comfort over how she was being criticized by other trans people.
The urge is for centrists on both sides of the political aisle to put aside their differences to protect liberal democracy from populists, who it is assumed want to destroy it.
Yet the slogan was originally used by the French fascist movement in the 1930s—perhaps illustrating that the centrists might have more in common with populists than they like to think.
Tunisia is the only democratic success story of the 2011 uprisings, with a unity government comprising secular centrists, moderate Islamists and independents, but - materially - most people are worse off than before.
The far left will emphasise economic protection; the far right will stress repatriating immigrants; centrists like Mr Macron and Mrs Merkel will offer an array of milder economic and social protections.
As the pool narrows and there aren't as many moderates and centrists to serve as a stark contrast, Castro and Warren may have no choice but to take on one another.
Warren and Sanders parried attack after attack from a number of centrists desperate to claw their way into the next debate, counter-punching hard as they defended their stridently progressive policies.
Trump huddled behind closed doors with rank-and-file Republicans just hours after GOP leaders unveiled changes intended to pick up votes by doling out concessions to centrists and hardliners alike.
Party activists favor someone like Wauquiez with a more right-leaning agenda, but analysts say a more unifying figure able to bring together centrists and Gaullists is needed to regain power.
These centrists are trying to avoid total opposition to Donald Trump, in part because they're fearful of being punished by voters at home (especially Bennet, of Colorado, where Gorsuch is from).
The debate points to a growing influence of conservative Catholic values in Polish public life since the staunchly eurosceptic PiS unseated the more secular-minded centrists in an election last October.
The volte-face split the party: left-wingers accused Mr Faymann of kissing up to the Freedom Party, while centrists said the party should start to cooperate with the far right.
Dent also offered stark criticisms of the latest bill, which he saw as an "exercise in blame-shifting" to make centrists appear responsible for the failure to Trump instead of conservatives.
Senate Republicans are including the repeal of ObamaCare's individual mandate in their tax-reform bill, a risky play that meets President Trump's demands but could cost the measure support from centrists.
The meeting is part of the "preliminary" discussion taking place between centrists on both sides of the aisle following the implosion of Senate Republicans' repeal-and-replace legislation, House lawmakers said.
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If he devotes the rest of his campaign to a platform of hard-edge nationalism, strategists said, it could further turn off the suburban centrists Senate Republicans need in their column.
House Democrats riven by infighting between centrists and progressives will take on a new challenge this week: passing legislation to raise the minimum wage for the first time in a decade.
An unofficial tally by Reuters of first round results for the 290-member Majlis (parliament) show conservatives won about 112 seats, reformers and centrists 90 and independents and religious minorities 29.
Leaders are scrambling to contain high-profile rifts between liberals and centrists on everything from the Green New Deal and "Medicare for all," to the handling of controversial remarks by Rep.
The Centrists Ciudadanos ("Citizens") - the fourth largest force in parliament and a party that is working in tandem with Rajoy's conservative People's Party (PP) on some policies - abstained in the vote.
This reflects the fact that Democratic contenders Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar -- both midwestern centrists -- decided to bow out of the race before Super Tuesday and throw their support behind Biden.
Centrists might not think these are good ideas, but they are not wild fantasies; they represent efforts to grapple with the chronic economic insecurity that is the enemy of political stability.
Many also underscore that centrists and incrementalists like Al Gore, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton have one thing in common, which is that they all lost presidential elections when they ran.
What's important is that such ideas, once the domain of the party's left wing, now face a diminished resistance from centrists, who once viewed them as too expensive and too interventionist.
That more moderate electorate likely explains why we had two centrists in Buttigieg and Klobuchar in second and third with a combined total of more than 44% of the overall vote.
In recent years, challenges to party leadership have come only from extremist factions like the Tea Party, not from centrists concerned with maintaining institutional norms or adopting policies with widespread appeal.
So harping on the dangers of automation, while it may sound tough-minded, is in practice a sort of escapist fantasy for centrists who don't want to confront truly hard questions.
The victory cemented Sanders's status as the primary field's frontrunner and delegate-leader but further fueled handwringing from centrists that the self-avowed democratic socialist could face electability issues in November.
Conor Lamb and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania and Elaine Luria of Virginia — three centrists with military backgrounds — as he seeks a breakout moment in the purple state of Iowa next month.
Pelosi has her eyes on keeping the House majority in 2021, and there was plenty of early concern from vulnerable centrists that impeachment would haunt them at the polls next year.
Yet the centrists have also drawn the wrath of liberal lawmakers and activists, who have denounced the bill as a giveaway to banks that undermines the stability of the financial system.
"I believe we should have more attention paid to the centrists in both parties," said Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, one of the early moderate defectors of the bill.
A further delay in the schedule is bad news for Senate Republicans, as it will allow opponents of the legislation more time to pressure wavering GOP centrists to vote against it.
The response you hear from conservative and Democratic centrists, those Blue Dogs that remain, is that they are the partners that you need to appease, not the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez left.
What's coming next: Titled "Down the Line Liberal," the ad foreshadows a theme that Republicans will use to attack other red state Democrats whose political brands depend on their reputations as centrists.
Besides Petro and Duque, ex-Vice President German Vargas and ex-Medellin Mayor Sergio Fajardo are also running as centrists hoping to beat one of the front-runners and force a runoff.
Both of these Colorado centrists are running against the Democratic Party's leftward drift — which could make it hard for either of them to distinguish themselves when they are on the same stage.
This is bad news for the "let's unify" crowd; who hoped this week would be dedicated to bashing Donald Trump and bringing liberals, centrists and conservative Democrats together against a common enemy.
It remains to be seen how much the outside pressure will do to shift the debate on Capitol Hill, particularly in the Senate, where centrists are wary of the changes to Medicaid.
A manifesto led by former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso called on centrists to unite to avoid the election becoming a fight between "radical, authoritarian and outdated" populists from the right and left.
Large price spikes for older and poorer people, due to less generous financial help in the GOP bill, have been a particular concern for many centrists and even some more conservative lawmakers.
But the proposal is facing serious headwinds from conservatives who think it doesn't go far enough to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act and centrists wary of repealing the law's Medicaid expansion.
And in the first two months of her premiership Mrs May has emphasised her commitment to things like vocational training, social mobility and industrial policy that once-Labour centrists tend to like.
Mr Sarkozy's head-spinning mercurial style, and his tendency to prefer grandiose gestures over policy follow-through, have lost him support among centrists, who see Mr Juppé as a less divisive figure.
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The point is that centrists who point to Europe as an illustration of the bad things that happen when you're too enthusiastic about pursuing social justice are stuck decades in the past.
House Republican leaders will bring a pair of immigration bills to the floor next week, sinking a push from reform-minded centrists to force votes on bipartisan bills opposed by GOP leadership.
He came to power on a left-wing, anti-financial sector platform that failed to bring centrists into his government, but ended up introducing business-friendly labor reforms that annoyed the left.
In Georgia and Florida, two uncompromising black progressives, former state House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams and Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, won primaries over white centrists to become the Democratic nominees for governor.
While restrictionists hold up Europe's crisis over multiculturalism as a dark vision of America's future, centrists reply that Europe's immigrant populations were alienated because families could remain legally excluded after several generations.
It would presumably involve winning over centrists and perhaps even disaffected Republicans with the promise of a candidacy that steers a middle ground and doesn't pander to partisan or hard-left interests.
Combined, they long held the majority of parliamentary seats, but that is no longer the case: Rising support for smaller populist parties, the Greens and liberals has weakened the influence of centrists.
Mr. Geithner, Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke are centrists in the context of modern American politics, but they are conservatives in the traditional sense — people trying to preserve a system they inherited.
And it raises questions about whether Democrats can deliver a consistent message to voters and unite behind one nominee from a slate of candidates who could range from socialists to pragmatic centrists.
He may pitch himself to centrists as an answer to the populists, but in leveraging his fortune to fight them, he offers the country the (hopefully) false choice between populism and oligarchy.
Yet with his unmatched biography and name recognition, he deprived younger center-left candidates like Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Michael Bennet of oxygen even as he failed to consolidate centrists himself.
This occurred because Mr. Macron and Mr. Fillon — both centrists — split much of the first-round vote, enabling the far-right Ms. Le Pen to beat out Mr. Fillon for second place.
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"The balance of power has been shifting away from European centrists and federalists towards nationalists, and this process has potentially huge implications for the bloc," in terms of its governance, Gallo said.
Democratic centrists and self-described pragmatists now also widely subscribe to critiques of the dominant economic policies of the last couple of decades — particularly that tax policy has not produced vigorous growth.
Hence, intellectual centrists prided themselves on their political independence from both sides of the political spectrum but were often more at pains to distinguish themselves from the left than from the right.
While Ms McSally should have been busy appealing to potential Sinema-backing centrists, she has instead been countering attacks from Ms Ward, who has cast her as anti-Trump and soft on immigration.
Buttigieg and Biden, two chief centrists in the race, are competing for similar sets of voters in the primary field, with some polls showing Buttigieg cutting directly into the former vice president's support.
In February, conservatives won about 112 seats in parliament, reformers and centrists 91 seats and independents and religious minorities 18 seats, a tally by Reuters showed, compiled in the absence of official numbers.
Some observers have speculated that this scenario would produce a civil war in the Labour party, where anti-Corbyn centrists try to topple him or even split off and form their own party.
As the number of true centrists dwindles in both parties, it is being extended to those who express ideological views in a way that sounds reasonable and co-operative, not strident and dogmatic.
In all these cases, moving the decarbonization focus beyond just renewables to something more inclusive was key in political salability, bringing enough wavering centrists on board to give the result a bipartisan air.
Health care: Five weeks after the House passed their version of the health care bill, folks in the Senate say there are still a lot of obstacles to bringing conservatives and centrists together.
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The Democratic centrists who ran from McGovernism, and who ridiculed Bernie Sanders for advocating a free college education for all Americans, will do their best to shoot down any plan for guaranteed jobs.
In last-minute negotiations on Wednesday, PiS rejected the centrists' appeal to delay the reopening of parliament after the Christmas and New Year recess to allow time to settle the budget stand-off.
House leadership had expressed pessimism on the chances for either Goodlatte's legislation or a second compromise bill written with centrists, both of which come as the growing crisis at the border dominated headlines.
The resolution, which the Budget Committee approved last week, has divided the GOP, with conservative Republicans demanding greater cuts to mandatory spending and centrists calling for a new, bipartisan approach to the blueprint.
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The centrist upheaval was eventually tamped down by leadership, who allowed a vote on a hardline Republican immigration bill and another bill born of a consensus between conservatives and centrists in the GOP.
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We know how that played out: The centrists won the argument and, when Clinton rode the "New Democrat" agenda to victory in 22020, Lite Republicanism became the official strategy of the Democratic Party.
Business centrists and Silicon Valley types appreciate it as a way to manage industry side effects—such as low labor costs and the displacement of workers by apps and A.I.—without impeding growth.
When centrists urge us to look away from questions of distribution and fairness and focus on growth instead, all too often they're basically running away from the real issues that divide us politically.
But Schultz's hand-wringing over policies like single-payer health care and job guarantees confirms that Democratic centrists have not disappeared and that they seem intent on repeating the mistakes of the past.
He has assiduously avoided being tagged as a stalking horse for [Steve] Bannon and his wing of hard-line nationalists or for senior adviser Jared Kushner and his coterie of business-friendly centrists.
But to those convinced they must have one, wouldn't pitching "another big tent"—that is, broadening the message to appeal to more centrists and independents—only further cloud what the party stands for?
McConnell is walking a tightrope in seeking to win over centrists and conservatives for a Senate version of the House-passed American Health Care Act — which is being negotiated entirely behind closed doors.
Merkel has stepped down as the leader of her party, and a shakeup is expected—an enlargement of the nationalist bloc, or a realignment of centrists behind Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
And unlike hard-liners on the right, Democratic activists have not contested Senate primaries in conservative-leaning states where the majority is at stake, allowing centrists to run unimpeded in Arizona and Tennessee.
National polls, which European Parliament officials regard as a fair indicator of likely voting in the EU election, show Macron's party winning 19 seats, compared with seven for French centrists at the moment.
President Donald Trump's early efforts to court conservatives opposed to the GOP's Obamacare replacement is backfiring in Congress — emboldening the far right to demand changes that could repel centrists critical to its passage.
Their relentless obstruction of every attempt by moderates, liberals, centrists and principled conservatives to thwart the excesses, divisiveness and corruptions of the Trump presidency create grave and extreme dangers to the GOP future.
The fight has pitted liberals against centrists, with the left pushing the party to back purer progressive candidates and some members of Congress saying their party should retain a big-tent approach. Rep.
Many of these amendments will fail, and some will pit centrists in the GOP conference against conservatives, a division that has made it exceedingly difficult for Republicans to move forward on ObamaCare repeal.
For many progressives as well as NeverTrump conservatives and centrists, the notion that Russian interference won Trump the 2016 election is a powerful, tantalizing prospect to cling to in a dark and strange time.
But Democratic centrists worry that calling for replacing the ACA with an entirely new government-run system could alienate the same voters who have recoiled from the repeated GOP effort to repeal the law.
House GOP leadership has just until Tuesday to produce legislative text on an immigration bill that can garner 218 votes before centrists move forward with their efforts to force votes on four immigration bills.
Still, the conventions of the 1970s and early '80s were at least a focal point for intraparty tensions at which fights between Ford and Reagan, Carter and Kennedy, centrists and ideologues would play out.
Examples of liberal picks would include Elizabeth Warren, Tom Perez, and Debo Adegbile; centrists would include Sri Srinivasan, Patricia Ann Millett, and Merrick Garland; moderate conservatives would include Jeffrey Sutton, Paul Clement, and Sen.
The centrists, now headed up by her most vocal critic, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, are a good bet to remain focused on the increased spending required to make any major expansion work.
In his statement, Buttigieg says that this proposal may mean centrists "who are more like [Obama Supreme Court nominee Merrick] Garland and Souter" could wind up holding the balance of power on the Court.
Centrists fear that Corbyn's emphatic victory, after a bruising and bitter campaign, will keep Labour out of power for a generation and could even trigger a permanent split in the 116-year-old party.
Labour First, a moderate pressure group, complained loudly that the left had stitched up the conference by denying speaking roles to centrists, most notably Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London (the organisers eventually relented).
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How can Americans — be they liberals, right-wingers or centrists — be assured that the intelligence community or others won't decide to "incidentally" collect personal information about them, and then leak it to the public?
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" Earlier in the week, Trump personally rallied members to support the immigration legislation — the product of weeks of delicate negotiations between centrists and conservatives — and told GOP lawmakers he was with them "1,000 percent.
But the case for a Bloomberg candidacy is stronger and infinitely simpler: In a field divided between politically feeble centrists, unelectable progressives, and one talented but awfully young small-city mayor, he … can … win.
The centrists are projecting that either Democrats or Republicans could have a narrow majority, which would give lawmakers in the middle more power to drive the agenda as leaders come begging for their votes.
Indeed, sometimes it feels as if centrists are Rip Van Winkles who spent the last 20 years in a cave and missed everything that has happened to America and the world since the 1990s.
Centrists had gathered 216 signatures on their initial discharge petition — two shy of the 85033 needed to force four competing DACA bills to the floor — before Republican leaders intervened with their two-vote strategy.
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Some centrists think that Patrick could offer a pull-the-alarm option if Biden falters, and some worry that he can only further split their vote and widen the opening for Warren or Sanders.
With conservatives and centrists still divided over whether to vote for the measure, GOP leaders face a tall task of rounding up enough votes to fulfill a pledge they've campaigned on for seven years.
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Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the Montana governor recalled the explosive clashes between centrists and progressives that erupted during the second round of Democratic primary debates in Detroit last week.
But since then, it has seen its representation in Parliament dwindle and is now embroiled in a fierce struggle between centrists and those who want to drive the party in a more ideological direction.
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But now some within the socialist left see a need for change — partially to remove one weapon from the centrists' arsenal, but also because they believe elevating women is crucial for the movement's survival.
Speaking of which … The non-horrors of "socialism" A number of people on the U.S. right, and some self-proclaimed centrists, seem totally taken aback by the rise of politicians who call themselves socialist.
Warren often seemed caught in the middle of the Democratic battle for hearts and minds, unable to peel away enough liberal support from Sanders or convince enough centrists that she could broaden her appeal.
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These forces are making it harder for European centrists to hold onto power — and as his comments made clear Monday, Mr. Trump is not making it any easier for the United States' longtime partners.
Conversely, many centrists and much of the news media simply refuse to face up to the asymmetry of our politics and will persist with bothsidesism even as one side drives us into the abyss.
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And with little more than two weeks before Israel's election, Netanyahu faces the most serious opponents of his career -- Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, two centrists who have teamed up in a formidable challenge.
And that's a story that reflects badly not just on Ryan himself, not just on his party, but also on self-proclaimed centrists and the news media, who boosted his career through their malfeasance.
Biden and the centrists of the contemporary political establishment are not the first generation of optimists to hope that the Republican Party might return from a period of shame to moderation and political respectability.
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Some colleagues with more experience in the issue worry that their large meetings of centrists are too unwieldy to produce results, but Flake has praised those sessions as a "safe space" to share ideas.
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Senators are struggling to break through a legislative stalemate on immigration, with centrists making a frantic push to find a deal that can win enough support to pass by the end of the week.
House Democrats' two most powerful factions — progressives and swing district centrists — are eyeing lengthy legislative wish lists for 2020 that could once again risk upending caucus unity as they head toward the next election.
It's an edge the Clinton campaign hopes it can use to find and then win over centrists and Republican voters as the Democratic nominee looks to build an edge on Trump, her Republican counterpart.
All of that mishigas points to a simple reality for Collins: This Kavanaugh vote -- and she finds herself on it -- is very, very different than your run-of-the-mill centrists-strike-compromise thing.
But these centrists already have upset some Democratic elders including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the party's liberal wing by voting on occasion with the Republicans during their first couple of months in office.
In addition to the discrete conservative factions Cass and Carlson represent, there is another dissident wing of conservatism, represented by the Niskanen Center, which attempts to appeal to moderates and centrists of both parties.
MacArthur has become so toxic within the group that he's intentionally stayed out of final negotiations this week, as leaders try to cajole dozens of centrists to accept the deal he brokered with conservatives.
They figured that if candidates like Andrew Yang could clear that bar, they could at least try to get Gravel onstage to critique what they see as a cadre of centrists with immoral legislative pasts.
It also averted what would have been a blistering defeat for a party divided between fervent conservatives demanding the evisceration of Obama's statute and centrists intent on not pulling coverage away from millions of Americans.
The bottom line: Expect the tension between liberals and centrists within the Democratic party to grow even more as these issues (Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, etc.) get prime airtime at the debates.
Even where relative centrists still hold sway – most particularly in President Emmanuel Macron's France and Chancellor Angela Merkel's Germany – far-right parties are on the rise, and could gain more power over the next decade.
She must be tempted to sound a shriller, more populist note herself, which would certainly be off-putting to the centrists Mr Trump, a politician even more disliked than Mrs Clinton, is bound to alienate.
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Kuehnert, who opposed going into coalition with Merkel's conservatives, appeals to those on the left of the party but less so to the centrists and floating voters it needs to increase its overall vote share.
GOP lawmakers were told on a conference-wide call Saturday that they are getting closer to an agreement between centrists and conservatives that would allow legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare to pass the House.
But so much of what he does and stands for is unpopular both with the right wing of his own party and the centrists that Mr Blair wooed that he will never become prime minister.
Trouble is, a second measure, imagined as a compromise between centrists and conservatives with a dollop of Trump's druthers mixed in, remains M.I.A. It's just the latest drama to engulf Ryan this year (The Hill).
In an interview, Mr McConnell dismisses the suggestion that legislation like the Civil Rights Act passed only because in the 1960s the two parties were still broad and overlapping coalitions, and home to many centrists.
If there were, then No Labels, the home of self-identified centrists like Joe Lieberman and Jon Huntsman, would be booming instead of plaintively tweeting about "bipartisan moments" from Trump's State of the Union address.
Look for Russia to increase its cyber efforts to influence foreign policy, disrupt electoral politics, and drive hearts and minds to the right by attacking leftists and centrists in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France and Romania.
Nashville is home to deeply ambitious country music centrists, accommodationist lifers, would-be outlaws, actual outlaws, and also to Mr. Simpson, who, despite some shared DNA here and there, is not any of those things.
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In other countries, majorities have elected leftists, like Andrés Manuel López Obrador , in Mexico; or dynamic centrists, like Emmanuel Macron, in France; or strongmen, like Trump, to address their fears about economic and cultural change.
But there's one more crucial element here: We wouldn't have gotten to this point if so many people outside the G.O.P. — in particular, journalists and self-proclaimed centrists — hadn't refused to acknowledge what was happening.
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Its leaders pressured Allende to move ahead ever faster with a radical socialist agenda, alarming not only Chilean rightists and many centrists as well, but also Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai, an informal adviser to Allende.
If the past few years have shown anything, it's that disillusioned Americans are looking for bold promises, aggressive rhetoric, and vitality, not milquetoast centrists who spend a bunch of time inveighing against the national debt.
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Centrists had pushed back on an addition to the legislation that allowed states to apply for a waiver to repeal some Obamacare regulations, which some members worried would undermine protections for people with preexisting conditions.
Intense pressure will now mount on other centrists like Klobuchar and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg to wrap their campaigns to avoid siphoning delegates away from Biden in a way that bolsters Sanders.
Centrists like Peterson have argued that they would have a much easier time winning reelection with a moderate like Biden at the top of the ticket compared to Sanders, who calls himself a democratic socialist.
With the help of a renowned mediation lawyer, conservatives, liberals and centrists gathered in secret for months, sweating the details of a pact they hope will split the church without producing messy and expensive lawsuits.
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Bloomberg has proposed creating a public health-insurance option, banning assault weapons and slashing U.S. carbon emissions - ideas that resemble those of fellow centrists Biden and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
We've got two reporters who just attended an event aimed at centrists coming on to break down how Warren has become a palatable candidate for a group that once eviscerated her in an op-ed.
A number of Democratic centrists — some of whom hold seats Trump carried by sizable margins — have studied internal polling showing Biden outperforming other Democratic contenders in head-to-heads with Trump in their respective districts.
Eight Democratic centrists opposed the resolution, in part because they believe the measure was brought to the floor too quickly with uncertainty still high in the region, according to several people familiar with the concerns.
The president has focused much of his criticism on Biden and Bloomberg, both of whom are casting themselves as electable centrists and who claim they will perform better in November than a progressive like Sanders.
In the current context of the democratic primary, unity is primarily weaponized by centrists to hide from voters the fact that their policies are actually way lamer and less exciting than their more progressive opponents.
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Everyone who claimed to be running things — the think-tankers, the bloviating centrists, the Pete Buttigiegs, the "Pod Save America" people — these were just grown-up model U.N. kids, overfull with ego and hot air.
Disagreements continue, of course, but centrists' latest effort to regroup and strike back against a resurgent left underscores the extent to which they are in practice beating a fighting retreat rather than playing to win.
Given the support of moderate Republicans and some Democrats, Ryan's compromise bill has the chance to make it out of the House, but Goodlatte's measure has been opposed by Democrats and many centrists in the GOP.
Their political survival depends on being perceived as centrists, and they will now have to spend months campaigning while caught in the crossfire of a liberal-conservative battle royal over a Trump-nominated Supreme Court justice.
The problem for moderate Democrats who are desperate to stop Sanders is that there's no indication that any of the centrists will be able to break free from the pack until their rivals start dropping out.
To see where French centrists have gone, one needed to take a trip to a pig farm in Brittany last week, where a crowd of reporters trailed behind Emmanuel Macron, an independent candidate and ex-minister.
But they are anxious about who the party's nominee might be, at turns worrying about liberal extremism turning off centrist voters and status quo centrists giving liberals a reason to stay home in the general election.
Clarida, whose term as vice chair will last four years, is seen as a key ally of Fed Chair Jerome Powell and has aligned himself with centrists at the Fed in supporting gradual interest rate rises.
If confirmed, the choice would mark a victory for centrists and liberals, who challenged what they saw as increasingly German domination in Brussels, and would end 15 years of centre-right control of the European Commission.
It's unclear whether Strzok is joking, or considering the voting strategy that some centrists initially pursued: Vote for Trump in the primaries, because there's no way that he'd be able to beat Clinton in the general.

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